iff anim converter

[emufan]

i found the AAP_AAC Animation Player/Converter by Wolfgang Hofer (1992) including source in C (Aztec).
it converts and plays Anim7 made from iff pictures / or converts between supported anim types.
does one feel able to take a look at the source and maybe create a win32 or linux command line version of the converter. the source is split into parts for eg. compress/save.
anyone dare to try?

[alkis]

Two problems:
a) Needs deplexing of the Amiga UI code
b) Needs rewritting of 68000 assembler routines in C
After you tackle those you might get in trouble with
c) Endianess

Other than that, pretty straightforward :P

On a more serious note, you might want to express your actuall need and maybe someone has a tool for your need already.

[emufan]

thanks for the reply.
i'm just about to use the converting routines, removing any gfx/intuitionbase stuff - does this refer to "Amiga UI" ?
also the player routine and scripting things will get purged.
until now i cannot find any assembler, just c source. it's just about open/close files
- and convert them with the functions provided from the original source.

#3 i did not thought about. once the source is cleaned, there will be someone with a ppc based machine for a start - hopefully

until I get bored: currently I try to pipe the source code into gcc/cygwin and correcting errors/typedefs. the files involved only might be aap_glob.c, aac_save.c and aac_main.c

and about something else. there is no converter for amiga animation files around. vlc/ffmpeg plays cdxl - but nothing can write anim5, anim7 etc.

edit: some error lines i try to decrypt:

AAC_MAIN.C:1:24: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*' [-Wwrite-strings]
In file included from AAC_MAIN.C:88:0:
aap_glob.c:195:24: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*' [-Wwrite-strings]
aap_glob.c:196:24: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*' [-Wwrite-strings]
aap_glob.c:197:24: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*' [-Wwrite-strings]
aap_glob.c:198:24: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*' [-Wwrite-strings]
aap_glob.c:199:24: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*' [-Wwrite-strings]
aap_glob.c:200:24: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*' [-Wwrite-strings]
In file included from AAC_MAIN.C:90:0:
aac_save.c: In function 'int EndWrFile()':
aac_save.c:33:23: warning: return-statement with no value, in function returning 'int' [-fpermissive]
aac_save.c:36:37: error: 'seek' was not declared in this scope
aac_save.c:37:31: warning: invalid conversion from 'FileHandle*' to 'int' [-fpermissive]
aac_save.c:43:62: error: 'seek' was not declared in this scope
aac_save.c:44:37: warning: invalid conversion from 'FileHandle*' to 'int' [-fpermissive]
aac_save.c:51:16: warning: invalid conversion from 'FileHandle*' to 'int' [-fpermissive]
aac_save.c: In function 'int OpenWrFile()':
aac_save.c:73:35: warning: invalid conversion from 'int' to 'FileHandle*' [-fpermissive]
aac_save.c: At global scope:
aac_save.c:91:9: error: expected constructor, destructor, or type conversion before '(' token
aac_save.c:95:1: error: expected unqualified-id before '{' token

[alkis]

Well here are the assembly parts

grep -n asm *
aap_body.c:106:#asm
aap_body.c:428:#endasm
aap_dlta.c:103:#asm
aap_dlta.c:104:; unvscomp.asm       Copyright 1987 Dancing Flame all rights reserved.
aap_dlta.c:499:#endasm
aap_play.c:284:#asm
aap_play.c:307:#endasm

Yes, I was refering to Intuition/Screen and stuff as Amiga UI.
I can compile

gcc -I/usr/local/amiga/m68k-amigaos/sys-include/ -c aap_main.c
gcc -I/usr/local/amiga/m68k-amigaos/sys-include/ -c aap_body.c
gcc -I/usr/local/amiga/m68k-amigaos/sys-include/ -c aap_dlta.c

aap_main gives a lot of warnings, but all three .o are produced. Now, linking is out of the question cause a lot of amiga specific stuff

gcc -o foo aap_body.o aap_dlta.o aap_main.o 
aap_body.o: In function `BodyToBitMap':
aap_body.c:(.text+0x164): undefined reference to `BdyUnpack'
aap_body.c:(.text+0x1c8): undefined reference to `BdyUnpack'
aap_dlta.o: In function `DeltaUnpack':
aap_dlta.c:(.text+0xfe): undefined reference to `decode_plane'
aap_main.o: In function `WaitSwap':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x79): undefined reference to `WaitTOF'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x133): undefined reference to `LoadView'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x161): undefined reference to `WaitTOF'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x17f): undefined reference to `WaitTOF'
aap_main.o: In function `StopVBLANCServer':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x507): undefined reference to `RemIntServer'
aap_main.o: In function `StartVBLANCServer':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x568): undefined reference to `AAP_VBLANC'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x572): undefined reference to `GetA4'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x5a3): undefined reference to `AddIntServer'
aap_main.o: In function `OpenMaxBitMap':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x5c6): undefined reference to `AllocMem'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x65b): undefined reference to `AllocMem'
aap_main.o: In function `AllocIntuiView':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x7c6): undefined reference to `OpenScreen'
aap_main.o: In function `RemakeIntuiView':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x8f8): undefined reference to `MakeScreen'
aap_main.o: In function `AllocMyView':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x928): undefined reference to `GetColorMap'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x9dc): undefined reference to `InitVPort'
aap_main.c:(.text+0xa37): undefined reference to `InitView'
aap_main.c:(.text+0xa7f): undefined reference to `LoadView'
aap_main.o: In function `RemakeMyView':
aap_main.c:(.text+0xaf7): undefined reference to `FreeCprList'
aap_main.c:(.text+0xb2d): undefined reference to `FreeCprList'
aap_main.c:(.text+0xb48): undefined reference to `FreeVPortCopLists'
aap_main.c:(.text+0xd58): undefined reference to `MakeVPort'
aap_main.c:(.text+0xd67): undefined reference to `MrgCop'
aap_main.o: In function `ScrollMyView':
aap_main.c:(.text+0xe36): undefined reference to `FreeCprList'
aap_main.c:(.text+0xe6c): undefined reference to `FreeCprList'
aap_main.c:(.text+0xe87): undefined reference to `FreeVPortCopLists'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x1087): undefined reference to `MakeVPort'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x1096): undefined reference to `MrgCop'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x10d7): undefined reference to `LoadView'
aap_main.o: In function `CloseMaxBitMap':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x1135): undefined reference to `FreeMem'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x1161): undefined reference to `FreeMem'
aap_main.o: In function `FreeMyView':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x118b): undefined reference to `LoadView'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x11c4): undefined reference to `FreeCprList'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x11f2): undefined reference to `FreeCprList'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x1282): undefined reference to `CloseScreen'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x129f): undefined reference to `FreeVPortCopLists'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x12bf): undefined reference to `FreeColorMap'
aap_main.o: In function `DispFrameSeq':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x179b): undefined reference to `BigMemset'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x189a): undefined reference to `LongMemcpy'
aap_main.o: In function `G_Open':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x1a89): undefined reference to `Open'
aap_main.o: In function `G_Close':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x1ad8): undefined reference to `Close'
aap_main.o: In function `G_Seek':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x1b30): undefined reference to `Seek'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x1b52): undefined reference to `Seek'
aap_main.o: In function `G_Seek_Rel':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x1b8b): undefined reference to `Seek'
aap_main.o: In function `G_Read':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x1bce): undefined reference to `Read'
aap_main.o: In function `GC_Read':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x1c1b): undefined reference to `Read'
aap_main.o: In function `SearchMaxFrame':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x1e00): undefined reference to `AllocMem'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x1e4e): undefined reference to `AllocMem'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x1e9c): undefined reference to `AllocMem'
aap_main.o: In function `AddFrameList':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x1f43): undefined reference to `AllocMem'
aap_main.o: In function `AddFile':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x26b6): undefined reference to `AllocMem'
aap_main.o:aap_main.c:(.text+0x277b): more undefined references to `AllocMem' follow
aap_main.o: In function `ExamineArgFile':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x370c): undefined reference to `FreeMem'
aap_main.o: In function `PlayScriptList':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x38b8): undefined reference to `WaitTOF'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x38ee): undefined reference to `WaitTOF'
aap_main.o: In function `InitPrefs':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x39f2): undefined reference to `AllocMem'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x3a36): undefined reference to `GetPrefs'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x3a4c): undefined reference to `AllocMem'
aap_main.o: In function `GetWbenchArgs':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x3a96): undefined reference to `WBenchMsg'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x3ad2): undefined reference to `CurrentDir'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x3af4): undefined reference to `WBenchMsg'
aap_main.o: In function `FreeLabelList':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x3b3c): undefined reference to `FreeMem'
aap_main.o: In function `FreeScriptList':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x3b81): undefined reference to `FreeMem'
aap_main.o: In function `FreeAnimList':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x3be4): undefined reference to `FreeMem'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x3c20): undefined reference to `FreeMem'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x3c36): undefined reference to `FreeMem'
aap_main.o:aap_main.c:(.text+0x3cbd): more undefined references to `FreeMem' follow
aap_main.o: In function `cleanup':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x3d87): undefined reference to `ClearPointer'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x3d9b): undefined reference to `CloseWindow'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x3dcb): undefined reference to `FreeMem'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x3dfb): undefined reference to `FreeMem'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x3e2b): undefined reference to `CloseScreen'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x3e56): undefined reference to `CloseLibrary'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x3e76): undefined reference to `CloseLibrary'
aap_main.o: In function `GoodBye':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x3ee7): undefined reference to `DisplayBeep'
aap_main.o: In function `main':
aap_main.c:(.text+0x4152): undefined reference to `OpenLibrary'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x4199): undefined reference to `OpenLibrary'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x4206): undefined reference to `OpenWindow'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x42e1): undefined reference to `SetPointer'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x4308): undefined reference to `Forbid'
aap_main.c:(.text+0x4317): undefined reference to `Permit'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

[emufan]

AAP is the player, I was looking into the AAC(onverter) - the following files only:
aac_main.c , aac_save.c and aap_glob.c. only c-source what i can see.
aac_main.c also includes aac_play.c (player routine for the converter), but this is not really needed. so i skiped that.

UI is not really a concern for the converter i think. so just skip these parts. thanks for looking into it.

edit: for the endianess problem, there is aros with some functions/routines, no clue if that is usefull for calculated values or just static definitions. but something exists already


edit: i'm using gcc 4.7.3 cygwin based, i guess your compiler is 2.9 something? i guess this would help with the older source.

edit: fixing example from acc_save.c - not sure about file mode stuff - trial & error ... :

  g_wr_fh = Open(filename, MODE_NEWFILE);
  if (g_wr_fh == NULL)  GoodBye(g_OpenErr, filename);

went into:

  g_wr_fh = open(filename, O_CREAT);
  if (g_wr_fh == NULL)  
  {
  printf("Cannot open output file: %s%s\n", strerror(g_OpenErr), strerror(filename));
  }

[alkis]

That's the compiler I use:
gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) 4.6.3

It might be easier to put wrappers in a new file (say cross.c) like
(untested code follows, just proof of concept)

BPTR Open(char *filename, int accessmode)
{
   switch(accessmode) {
        case MODE_NEWFILE:
             return (BPTR) open(filename, O_CREAT);
        case MODE_OLDFILE: //or whatever the enum is
             return (BPTR) open(filename, O_RDONLY);
        ...
   }
}

the benefit of it being, you don't have to make 10 changes in the code (if the Open appears 10 times).

[emufan]

thats cool. thanks for this hint