Subj : Re: Synchronet config change
To   : Rob Swindell
From : Vitaliy Aksyonov
Date : Wed Mar 06 2024 10:31 am

Hello Rob.

05 Mar 24 23:46, you wrote to me:

 >>   Re: Re: Synchronet config change
 >>   By: Vitaliy Aksyonov to Rob Swindell on Mon Mar 04 2024 07:57 am
 >>
 >>  >  >> Code can be build from Synchronet branch.
 >>
 >>  >  RS> Awesome, thank you for doing that!
 >>
 >>  > Could you test that for me? I tried to use msgs.cnf and msgs.ini
 >> and it
 >>  > works for me. At least it reads configuraion correctly. I didn't
 >> try to
 >>  > read messages, because I don't have full Synchronet
 >> installation.
 >>
 >> I'll try to. :-)

 RS> Not much luck so far. I forked and then cloned your github repo.
 RS> First, I tried a 'make' which after hundreds of warnings, did generate
 RS> bin/gedlnx:

 RS> rswindell@git ~/golded-plus (Synchronet) $ ll bin
 RS> total 34688
 RS> -rwxrwx--- 1 rswindell rswindell 33386672 Mar  5 23:25 gedlnx

Ignore those warnings. I'm aware of those and they are there because of ancient code base. :)

BTW, make sure that Synchronet changes are actually there. I've pushed them to master just today. You may need to pull
from repo again.

 RS> But running it (via SSH) doesn't output anything, just exits
 RS> immediately. 'gedlnx --help' same, nothing.

Unfortunately there is a bug which hides usage message if no config found. I've tried to fix it, but had to revert it back, because correct fix is not that simple.

 RS> So then I searched for documentation. golded.org appears down.

 RS> I saw you have CMakeLists.txt, so I tried using that to build. This
 RS> time, a lot fewer errors and it output some promising binaries, but
 RS> again, running them produces no output:

 RS> rswindell@git ~/golded-plus/out/golded3 (Synchronet) $ sudo make
 RS> install [  4%] Built target uulib [  9%] Built target hunspell [ 34%]
 RS> Built target gall [ 53%] Built target gcfg [ 60%] Built target gcui [
 RS> 61%] Built target smblib [ 77%] Built target gmb3 [100%] Built target
 RS> golded Install the project... -- Install configuration: "" --
 RS> Installing: /usr/local/bin/golded rswindell@git
 RS> ~/golded-plus/out/golded3 (Synchronet) $ golded rswindell@git
 RS> ~/golded-plus/out/golded3 (Synchronet) $

 RS> Maybe I need to create or edit a config file or something? An error
 RS> message or *some* kind of output from running 'golded' could be
 RS> helpful.

You have to have config file. You may start from simple config file from here:

https://github.com/golded-plus/golded-plus/blob/master/cfgs/config/simple.cfg

And then uncomment this line:

;AREAFILE SBBS         R:\SBBS\                  ; Synchronet BBS dir

Set correct path to Synchronet directory. That shall do the trick.

Thanks for help!

Vitaliy

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