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Hi,

Can someone help me with installing Bochs on Ubuntu (actually is Kubuntu, but I think this doesn't really matters that much)?

This is what I've tried, but without success:
- Since I didn't have the "rpm" command line utility I downloaded its source code ("rpm-4.4.2.1.tar.gz") and tried to install it:
$ ./configure
$ make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/marcio/rpm-4.4.2.1/rpm-4.4.2.1'
Making all in po
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/marcio/rpm-4.4.2.1/rpm-4.4.2.1/po'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/marcio/rpm-4.4.2.1/rpm-4.4.2.1/po'
Making all in misc
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/marcio/rpm-4.4.2.1/rpm-4.4.2.1/misc'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I. -I.. -g -O2 -fPIC -DPIC -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wno-char-subscripts -fno-strict-aliasing -MT glob.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/glob.Tpo -c -o glob.o glob.c
In file included from glob.c:47:
../system.h:295:29: error: selinux/selinux.h: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [glob.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/marcio/rpm-4.4.2.1/rpm-4.4.2.1/misc'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/marcio/rpm-4.4.2.1/rpm-4.4.2.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2

- As that didn't work out I tried to unarchive the Bochs rpm file with 7-Zip:
$ 7z x bochs-2.3-1.i586.rpm
$ 7z x bochs-2.3-1.i586.cpio.gz
$ 7z x \[Content\]
Then I moved the folder "usr" to the filesystem root and:
$ chmod +x /usr/bin/bochs* /usr/bin/bx*
$ bochs
5 <ENTER>
00000000000i[ ] installing sdl module as the Bochs GUI
00000000000i[ ] Bochs x86 Emulator 2.3
00000000000i[ ] Build from CVS snapshot on August 27, 2006
00000000000i[ ] System configuration
00000000000i[ ] processors: 1 (cores=1, HT threads=1)
00000000000i[ ] A20 line support: yes
00000000000i[ ] APIC support: no
00000000000i[ ] CPU configuration
00000000000i[ ] level: 5
00000000000i[ ] paging support: yes, tlb enabled: yes
00000000000i[ ] SMP support: no
00000000000i[ ] FPU support: yes
00000000000i[ ] MMX support: yes
00000000000i[ ] SSE support: no
00000000000i[ ] v8086 mode support: yes
00000000000i[ ] VME support: yes
00000000000i[ ] 3dnow! support: no
00000000000i[ ] PAE support: no
00000000000i[ ] PGE support: no
00000000000i[ ] PSE support: yes
00000000000i[ ] x86-64 support: no
00000000000i[ ] SEP support: no
00000000000i[ ] Optimization configuration
00000000000i[ ] Guest2HostTLB support: no
00000000000i[ ] RepeatSpeedups support: no
00000000000i[ ] Icache support: no
00000000000i[ ] Host Asm support: yes
00000000000i[ ] Fast function calls: no
00000000000i[ ] Devices configuration
00000000000i[ ] NE2000 support: no
00000000000i[ ] PCI support: no
00000000000i[ ] SB16 support: no
00000000000i[ ] USB support: no
00000000000i[ ] VGA extension support:
00000000000i[MEM0 ] allocated memory at 0xb5a7c008. after alignment, vector=0xb5a7d000
00000000000i[MEM0 ] 32.00MB
00000000000i[MEM0 ] rom at 0xffff0000/65536 ('/usr/local/share/bochs/BIOS-bochs-latest')
00000000000i[MEM0 ] rom at 0xc0000/38400 ('/usr/local/share/bochs/VGABIOS-lgpl-latest')
00000000000i[CMOS ] Using local time for initial clock
00000000000i[CMOS ] Setting initial clock to: Sat Aug 4 14:42:27 2007 (time0=1186234947)
00000000000i[DMA ] channel 4 used by cascade
00000000000i[DMA ] channel 2 used by Floppy Drive
00000000000i[MEM0 ] Register memory access handlers: 000a0000-000bffff
00000000000p[SDL ] >>PANIC<< Unable to initialize SDL libraries
00000000000i[SYS ] Last time is 1186234947
00000000000i[ ] restoring default signal behavior
================================================== ======================
Bochs is exiting with the following message:
[SDL ] Unable to initialize SDL libraries
================================================== ======================
00000000000i[CTRL ] quit_sim called with exit code 1

- After this I tried to compile Bochs ("bochs-2.3.tar.gz"):
$ ./configure
configure: WARNING: Bochs for wxWidgets cannot be compiled here, disabling it
checking for default gui on this platform... x11
ERROR: X windows gui was selected, but X windows libraries were not found.

- Then I saw it could use SDL, so I downloaded SDL ("SDL-1.2.12.zip") and compiled it:
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

- Proceeded to Bochs:
$ ./configure --with-sdl
$ make
$ sudo make install

- No problems here so I tried to run Bochs once again:
$ bochs
5 <ENTER>
00000000000i[ ] installing sdl module as the Bochs GUI
00000000000i[ ] using log file bochsout.txt
================================================== ======================
Bochs is exiting with the following message:
[SDL ] Unable to initialize SDL libraries
================================================== ======================

- After that I tried to use the SDL rpm file ("SDL-1.2.12-1.i386.rpm"):
$ 7z x SDL-1.2.12-1.i386.rpm
$ 7z x SDL-1.2.12-1.i386.cpio.gz
$ 7z x SDL-1.2.12-1.i386.cpio

- Moved the folder "usr" to the filesystem root and:
$ bochs
5 <ENTER>
00000000000i[ ] installing sdl module as the Bochs GUI
00000000000i[ ] Bochs x86 Emulator 2.3
00000000000i[ ] Build from CVS snapshot on August 27, 2006
00000000000i[ ] System configuration
00000000000i[ ] processors: 1 (cores=1, HT threads=1)
00000000000i[ ] A20 line support: yes
00000000000i[ ] APIC support: no
00000000000i[ ] CPU configuration
00000000000i[ ] level: 5
00000000000i[ ] paging support: yes, tlb enabled: yes
00000000000i[ ] SMP support: no
00000000000i[ ] FPU support: yes
00000000000i[ ] MMX support: yes
00000000000i[ ] SSE support: no
00000000000i[ ] v8086 mode support: yes
00000000000i[ ] VME support: yes
00000000000i[ ] 3dnow! support: no
00000000000i[ ] PAE support: no
00000000000i[ ] PGE support: no
00000000000i[ ] PSE support: yes
00000000000i[ ] x86-64 support: no
00000000000i[ ] SEP support: no
00000000000i[ ] Optimization configuration
00000000000i[ ] Guest2HostTLB support: no
00000000000i[ ] RepeatSpeedups support: no
00000000000i[ ] Icache support: no
00000000000i[ ] Host Asm support: yes
00000000000i[ ] Fast function calls: no
00000000000i[ ] Devices configuration
00000000000i[ ] NE2000 support: no
00000000000i[ ] PCI support: no
00000000000i[ ] SB16 support: no
00000000000i[ ] USB support: no
00000000000i[ ] VGA extension support:
00000000000i[MEM0 ] allocated memory at 0xb5ac0008. after alignment, vector=0xb5ac1000
00000000000i[MEM0 ] 32.00MB
00000000000i[MEM0 ] rom at 0xffff0000/65536 ('/usr/local/share/bochs/BIOS-bochs-latest')
00000000000i[MEM0 ] rom at 0xc0000/38400 ('/usr/local/share/bochs/VGABIOS-lgpl-latest')
00000000000i[CMOS ] Using local time for initial clock
00000000000i[CMOS ] Setting initial clock to: Sat Aug 4 14:52:16 2007 (time0=1186235536)
00000000000i[DMA ] channel 4 used by cascade
00000000000i[DMA ] channel 2 used by Floppy Drive
00000000000i[MEM0 ] Register memory access handlers: 000a0000-000bffff
00000000000p[SDL ] >>PANIC<< Unable to initialize SDL libraries
00000000000i[SYS ] Last time is 1186235536
00000000000i[ ] restoring default signal behavior
================================================== ======================
Bochs is exiting with the following message:
[SDL ] Unable to initialize SDL libraries
================================================== ======================
00000000000i[CTRL ] quit_sim called with exit code 1

- Finally I tried with WxWidgets ("wxWidgets-2.8.4.tar.gz"):
$ ./configure --with-x11 --disable-shared --enable-log --enable-debug -without-odbc --enable-debug_cntxt
configure: error: X11 not found, please use --x-includes and/or --x-libraries options (see config.log for details)

$ ./configure --with-sdl --disable-shared --enable-log --enable-debug -without-odbc --enable-debug_cntxt
configure: error: X11 not found, please use --x-includes and/or --x-libraries options (see config.log for details)

Thanks!

Never mind guys, I have successfully installed it. Thanks anyway.

You use ubuntu, so would have done it. Use APT instead of RPM. And if you only have an RPM (i.e. the code isn't on the APT repository) use alien. JamesM

Will apt work if you want to customize your version? (eg. debugger, disassembler, x86_64 support, etc.)

Just use the sources for that. IMO, RPM pretty much is an outdated package management system. (Anyone who's ever used Suse will know what I mean.)

JamesM wrote:You use ubuntu, so

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sudo apt-get install bochs

would have done it. Use APT instead of RPM. And if you only have an RPM (i.e. the code isn't on the APT repository) use alien.

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sudo apt-get install alien
sudo alien -i <my RPM>.rpm

JamesM

Too late now
I installed the Synaptic Package Manager and used it to download and install Bochs since I don't (didn't) know how to do it via command line.

Alboin wrote:(...) Just use the sources for that. (...)

I created this thread precisely because I couldn't compile it