Fun(?) compiling nethack under vmware server

Ok. Just for fun I decided to try installing several Unix like
operating systems on VMware Server on my home computer and compiling
nethack on them and this is my report.

I did this on

Fedora 8 (linux)
FreeBSD 6.3
Solaris 10

I haven't messed with VMware before because I only have 512 meg on my
computer and didn't think that was enough. But, it was for this
purpose.

Linux was the easiest, Solaris a total pain, and FreeBSD in the
middle. The actual compilation of Nethack wasn't really much
different between the three so that was a little disappointing.
Really, I'm just compiling with gcc on an Intel box so what's the big
difference?

The biggest difference was just getting the os's to work well enough
that I could copy the nethack source over to the VM. I also fooled
with getting X Windows working on Linux and FreeBSD although that
wasn't really necessary to compile nethack.

I guess the main thing I learned was that really compiling nethack
isn't that different even if the OS's have all their own wierd
quirks. i.e. there is a different shutdown command for each one.

- Bobby

Bobby wrote:
> I (compiled nethack) on
>
> Fedora 8 (linux)
> FreeBSD 6.3
> Solaris 10

When you did FreeBSD, I wonder whether you did #define SYSV or #define
BSD in the unixconf.h file. Either choice probably works with FreeBSD
and OpenBSD.

But my current theory is that above DragonFly, Mac OS X or NetBSD (all
modern *BSD systems), #define SYSV will compile NetHack and #define
BSD will cause compiler errors.

My macppc machine has a partitioned hard disk with three installed
operating systems. I normally run OpenBSD, but can reboot into Mac OS
X or NetBSD. Perhaps I should have my own fun now, and try compiling
NetHack for Mac OS X and NetBSD.

--Kernigh