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davidgiven
Cannot build Wordgrinder 0.8
Hello, I am on Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon using guake as my standard terminal emulator. I seem to have all the dependencies installed, but when I cd into the wordgrinder-0.8 folder and do 'make', I get this error:
make: *** Keine Regel vorhanden, um das Ziel „src/c/emu/lua-5.1.5/*.[ch]“, benötigt von „.obj/lua“, zu erstellen. Schluss.
Sorry, this German, but I hope it is understandable somehow. It's complaining about a missing rule, so „src/c/emu/lua-5.1.5/*.[ch]", necessary for "obj/lua" can be built -my translation. What does this mean, and is there a fix/workaround for it? Wordgrinder 0.7.2 is running perfectly on my sytem... I'd appreciate your help.
Did you by any chance download the 'minimal dependencies for Debian' version? That's missing half the files and is intended for packaging only.
Also, you might want to consider the latest development build --- 0.8 is quite old now.
Yes, it is the minimal dependencies one indeed! But where can I get the latest development release? Whenever I click a link to the latest release, I end up with version 0.8. Of course I would like to try out the development release... Thanks for providing a link - I may constantly be overlooking something ;-)
In the meantime I have figured out that I need to download the source, which I did. Succeeded in building version 0.8. It's running like a charm. Unfortunately there is no luck with the dev version. I can run make, but 'sudo make install' into my home directory is a failure. There is no error, but there is nothing after the whole process I could launch, which is strange. So for the moment I will stick to version 0.8, which is fine for me (at least as long as I do not know what I would miss ;-) ).
If you did sudo make install, then it's likely that it's been installed into root's home directory, which is probably not what you want! Try just make install?
Thanks for your reply. I looked through my root folder, but no trace of wordgrinder. And another strange thing about version 0.8 (not the function, but the file placement after installation): I did 'sudo make install PREFIX=/usr/bin'. But afterwards the wordgrinder and xwordgrinder files end up in /home/USER/bin with owner root. Invoking 'wordgrinder' from terminal without sudo just launches wordgrinder, and I can start typing... No admin password necessary.