Trying to add all of the computerscare modules

[kawa-sanmyaku]

Hello!

To preface, I have zero git experience, zero build experience, zero programming experience, etc., no experience at all. I make t-shirts for a living and music is just a hobby. I want to add all of the computerscare modules to Cardinal and then make a pull request, so I followed this guide. I cloned the repository with the --recursive flag first.

plugins/Makefile

plugins/plugins.cpp

Hopefully I did everything correctly here. Now it's time to build, so I tried following this guide. This is where I have no clue how to proceed.

I installed all the dependencies I could. A couple of them were already installed, the libx* dependencies I had to capitalize the X to install, and libgl isn't in the Fedora repo but I installed mesa-libGl, honestly not sure if they're the same thing.

I use Windows too, so I'd like to build for Windows as well, so I installed (what I think are) the necessary compilers following this guide, installing the C and C++ compilers for both Win32 and Win64.

Now I cd into the Cardinal directory and tried both make and make SYSDEPS=true...

But jansson and jansson-devel are already installed... I have no idea how to proceed here. Running make with no other options seems like it'll do something and then it errors out. Any help is appreciated.

[kawa-sanmyaku]

UPDATE 1: I forgot to install a package, gcc-g++, along with some *-devel dependencies. This took me a while to figure out. Running the make command alone was erroring out, so I figured I had to run the command as admin.

It's doing something now. Will post another update with the results.

[kawa-sanmyaku]

I had previously made an UPDATE 2, where I was getting a lot of 'was not declared in this scope' and 'marked as override but does not override'. Before all these errors, I got an error that said "app.hpp not found", so I commented it out. Thinking it would solve the issue.

It turns out that I do indeed need "app.hpp" and the master branch in the computerscare repo wasn't up to date as described in this issue, so I'll sort that out first. Will update with results.

[kawa-sanmyaku]

UPDATE 3: After checking out and updating the submodule, I added the line Plugin* pluginInstance__computerscare; which is a step missing from the guide I followed.

This is where I'm at right now. The errors seem to have something to do with dBiz which I haven't touched but judging by the first error, both dBiz and computerscare are declaring the same thing "const NVGcolor BLACK", now I have no idea how I'd sort that out beyond manually editing the computerscare files.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

EDIT: I think I figured it out, I'll change BLACK to BLACK_COMPUTERSCARE and change BLACK in the rest of the .hpp files, will post an update.

EDIT2: I had to change a bunch of other things, for instance I added "CS" to the end of BGPanel which was also being declared by JW Modules, and a couple of others as well. I also forgot to install libXext-devel. It's compiling now. I'll have to wait. Fingers crossed.

[kawa-sanmyaku]

UPDATE4: Last update of the day, and another roadblock.

I have no idea how to fix this. Calling it a day here. Will probably continue next weekend.

[kawa-sanmyaku]

I give up