How to compile bochs ?

[bscreator]

Hello,

I installed Bochs from the packages and additionally i want to install a second instance of Bochs with Debugging-enabled, like in the Document from http://wiki.osdev.org/Bochs. I used Bochs 2.6 and tried it with the following commands :

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sudo apt-get install build-essential

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sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev

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gunzip -c bochs-2.6.tar.gz | tar -xvf -

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./configure --enable-smp --enable-cpu-level=6 --enable-all-optimizations --enable-x86-64 --enable-pci --enable-vmx --enable-debugger --enable-disasm --enable-debugger-gui --enable-logging --enable-fpu --enable-3dnow --enable-cdrom --enable-x86-debugger --enable-iodebug --disable-plugins --disable-docbook --with-x --with-x11 --with-term

But it failed with the following error : Curses library not found: tried curses, ncurses, termlib and pdcurses.
And so I can't execute make and also not make-install.

What I am doing wrong ?

Thanks for all your help!

[iansjack]

You haven't installed the curses library?

[Nable]

One should install development packages for all dependencies. I don't remember the whole list for Bochs but for ncurses development you should install libncurses5-dev.

[Kevin]

I'm pretty sure that Debain has a bochs package, so you could make use of that and do something like this:

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apt-get build-dep bochs

[embryo2]

It's much more interesting how to compile bochs under Windows.

[onlyonemac]

It's much more interesting how to compile bochs under Windows.

...although irrelevant.

[Nutterts]

Curses library not found: tried curses, ncurses, termlib and pdcurses.

apt-get install ncurses-dev

... or something like that... try 'apt-cache search ncurses' to find the exact package name if the above fails.

[bscreator]

...although irrelevant.

Exactly

I don't remember the whole list for Bochs but for ncurses development you should install libncurses5-dev

Exactly

After installing the necessary libraries the ./configure-command was going fine, but make broke with an Error. I asked Google and i found, that you have to add "LDFLAGS='-pthread'" to your ./configure-command.

So i run ./configure with

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./configure --enable-debugger --enable-disasm LDFLAGS='pthread'

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make

And all runs smoothly

So, for all of yours who want to compile Bochs by yourself, don't forget LDFLAGS='pthread' !!!

Thanks for all your help !
bsc