Z88dk: Full z88dk Installation with SDCC Installation on Ubuntu Linux 20.04

[spectrumcomputing]

Hi,

I'm installing z88dk on Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop LTS.

I install all the required packages:

sudo apt-get install dos2unix libboost-all-dev texinfo texi2html libxml2-dev subversion bison flex zlib1g-dev

I download the nightly build:

wget http://nightly.z88dk.org/z88dk-latest.tgz
tar -xzf z88dk-latest.tgz

Then follow the instructions:

cd z88dk
export BUILD_SDCC=1
chmod 777 build.sh
./build.sh

When the installer gets to this line, it just hangs:

svn checkout -r 11940 https://svn.code.sf.net/p/sdcc/code/trunk/sdcc -q /home/ubuntu/z88dk/src/sdcc-build

I have checked that this site is available:

https://svn.code.sf.net/p/sdcc/code/trunk/sdcc/

Many thanks

Peter Jones

[suborb]

Hi, sdcc's SVN can be horrendously slow at times, so I ended up adding a "download tarball" option for the CI systems.

You can use it too, if you additionally add export BUILD_SDCC_HTTP=1 before the ./build/sh line - this does use curl to download so make sure it's installed.

[spectrumcomputing]

Hi @suborb,

Thanks for the quick reply. Result! It worked. Is there any chance you could add this to the install instructions, as I struggled for a number of days, before raising a bug. Best wishes and festive greetings. Peter Jones

[suborb]

No worries, it's already on the wiki page: https://github.com/z88dk/z88dk/wiki/installation - but it may be a bit hidden:

This will build z88dk include zsdcc. If you don't want to build zsdcc then omit the export BUILD_SDCC=1 line. The source code for sdcc is downloaded from svn which can be slow, if it keeps failing then run the command: export BUILD_SDCC_HTTP=1 before prior to running ./build.sh - this will download a source code tarball from the z88dk nightly website.

[spectrumcomputing]

Thanks, How did I miss that! Can I ask one more question? This did not seem to include appmake. Do I need to install that separately?

[suborb]

No, it's included. There were a lot of clashes with other packages with the name of the z80asm binary, so for consistency most of the tools got a z88dk- prefix a few months ago.

[spectrumcomputing]

Thank you! Got it.