Re: dosemu and accessibility

Jude DaShiell
2021-05-02T20:59:39Z

Researching it, I just learned slackware has no soundfonts package in any
of its repositories normally configured to work with slint. I'm glad I'm
documenting stuff in dosemu2.org! Is there an url for soundfonts that
will work once built and installed?

On Sun, 2 May 2021, stsp wrote:

> 02.05.2021 21:23, Jude DaShiell ?????:
> > Slint findings. For those that don't know, slint is the international
> > version of slackware and has had considerable accessibility upgrades done
> > to it by its maintainer Didier Spaier.
> > Findings, most of dosemu2 will build. The show stopper is comcom32 and
> > why that is is recipe for command.o fails to build.
>
> This is indeed a show-stopper most of
> the time. You need djgpp to build it,
> which is a great pain to build by itself.
> You can try djgpp from here:
> https://github.com/jwt27/build-gcc
> or from here:
> https://github.com/stsp/build-gcc
> Maybe one of these will build.
> But the common suggestion so far,
> is to put the pre-built comcom32.exe
> to its source dir, and do "make install",
> pretending as if it was built.
>
>
> > The dosemu2 run process crashed since it didn't have comcom32 or freecom
>
> It shouldn't crash because of that.
> There might be other errors too, if
> it did.
>
>
> > and it complained about several packages being too old.
>
> It might be telling you that soundfonts
> are not installed, in addition to fluidsynth
> being too old. Installing soundfonts should
> fix that.
>
>