Compiling Micropolis (Simcity) on Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10) and Jaunty (9.04)

March 3, 2009 kevin Games, Linux, 3

Update: Starting from Ubuntu Karmic (9.10), Micropolis is in your apt!

You need the following:

sudo apt-get install libx11-dev libxpm-dev x11proto-xext-dev libxext-dev

You also need yacc, it will fail if you use bison or btyacc:

btyaccpa.ske:111: erreur: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘yyparsestate’
btyaccpa.ske:128: erreur: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
btyaccpa.ske:131: erreur: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
btyaccpa.ske:180: erreur: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
btyaccpa.ske:181: erreur: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
btyaccpa.ske:182: erreur: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
btyaccpa.ske: In function ‘yyparse’:
btyaccpa.ske:193: erreur: ‘yyparsestate’ undeclared (first use in this function)
btyaccpa.ske:193: erreur: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
btyaccpa.ske:193: erreur: for each function it appears in.)
btyaccpa.ske:193: erreur: ‘yyerrctx’ undeclared (first use in this function)
btyaccpa.ske:206: erreur: ‘yyps’ undeclared (first use in this function)
btyaccpa.ske:257: erreur: ‘yypath’ undeclared (first use in this function)

Or:

tclxgdat.y:67.15: syntax error, unexpected =
tclxgdat.y:79.16: syntax error, unexpected =
tclxgdat.y:83.25: syntax error, unexpected =
tclxgdat.y:86.32-33: valeur $ invalide : $3

But works with byacc:

sudo apt-get install byacc

Get the micropolis source (micropolis-activity-source.tgz) from http://www.donhopkins.com/home/micropolis/ , extract it:

tar -zxvf micropolis-activity-source.tgz

cd micropolis-activity/

Then apply this patch and compile:

wget http://rmdir.de/~michael/micropolis_git.patch

patch -p1 < micropolis_git.patch

cd src

make clean (if you tried compiling with another yacc before)

make install

If you get the following error then when doing ./Micropolis:

sh: Syntax error: Bad fd number
sh: Syntax error: Bad fd number

Do:

sudo apt-get install rpl

go inside the micropolis-activity folder and run:

rpl -R “/bin/sh” “/bin/bash” *

And recompile Micropolis:

cd src

make clean install

Enjoy Micropolis! 🙂

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