This is pretty much a dump of what I’ve been working on during making this port. It also contains some dev screenshots.

September 19, 2016

Day 12

added _ARMOR define

was struc by:

typedef unsigned long DWORD
which is by the way 8 bytes! on 64bit
changed to unsigned int in order to be 32bit

fixing code…

September 17, 2016

Day 11

continue stepping inside engine initialize function and Viewer path conversions \ -> /

type width problems

size_t stringLength;

problem if 64bit, because saved data used 32bit probram where size_t is 4bytes

size_t:

mlrlightmap.cpp
auto_container.hpp
60:marray.hpp
58:filestreammanager.cpp
matrixstack.hpp
mstring.hpp

September 17, 2016

Day 10

continue to fill main() function and run Viewer

implemented gos_CreateMemroyHeap and friends

caveat: _open() calls File::open(const char* bufer, int length) instead of system open because

#define _open open

should be

#define _open ::open

or even better

#define _open my_super_open

and then

FILE* my_super_open(...)
{
    ...
}

caveat2: code uses long and assumes that it is 4 bytes :-(

September 17, 2016

Day 9

wrote some scripts to extrac all IDS_ (string ids) from the code, and create mockup array, will have to extract real values from windows res file.

added some lines to a main() function, now it is not so empty :-)

September 14, 2016

Day 8

finally it compiles and links without error, though main function looks like this:

int main(void)
{
}

:-)

will have to fill it somehow :-)

August 11, 2016

Day 7

OK viewer compiles though now I have to somehow implement a dozillion of functions just to get it linked.

stubs are our friends!!!

make 2>&1 | grep undefined | perl -pe " s/.+ undefined reference to \`(.*)\'/\1/g " | sort | uniq | wc -l

gave only 160 results :-) hehe :-)

mostly sound & graphics, some strings stuff (but that should be easy)

anyway I always wanted to implement a renderer here is my STAR TIME has come!!!1111

August 9, 2016

Day 6

some forward declaration related changs (cross reference of include files, somehow it was compiling on Windows :-/)

unsigned int fogColor;
// later
SetRenderState(state, (int)&fogColor);
//what? pointer to value cast ?

mlr project is built!!!! (I mean just compiled :-))

August 7, 2016

Day 4

unicode / mbs / char mess……..

still mess, but at leas it compiles :-) not links though ))

started to create duplicates for windows headers: windows.h / winnt.h / winuser.h / windef.h / winnls.h etc…

another folder called mclib is compiling (without subfolders though)

using NULL instead of '\0', e.g. char* aa; aa[0] = NULL

August 7, 2016

Day 3

Fixed some more bugs

started to create window-like headers, and implement windows functions(mostly string related) so less work will be needed to do

MemoryPtr defined in 8 places :(

memory heaps… a lot of asm… but there is an option in the code to use GameOS memeory heap, of course that one has no implementation, but I can do something to it, so switch to GameOS heap and throw away all scary ASM code

compression - guess what - ASM! replace by zlib

August 5, 2016

Day 2

ok, leys start porting! yay! hm… how do I even compile it… lets go into directory with smalles number of files CMakeLists.txt based on .vcproj files

cat Stuff.vcproj | grep ".cpp" | perl -pe 's/.+\"(\w+\.cpp)\".+/\1/g' >> CMakeLists.txt

ok, compile… oh my..

and of course nobody cared for include filename CaSEneSs,

so small script to bring all files to lowercase

small script to bring all include to lowercase and fix slashes

ok better but still…

lots of asm code, in some places there is equivalent C++ code, but looks like it was never tested, some stupid mistakes there, like variables are even not declared, or function calls used which do not exist

probably only ASM branch was used since some moment of time…, ok still switch to C++ #ifdef path and just fix it