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Omni - Jan 6, 2005

		Omni	Jan 6, 2005
		Well, I set up my PATHs and installed KPIT and everything, set up the SGL thingagummie and started out with one of the Akira demos. I changed the directories in that makefile to point to where SGL and the tools were on my machine, and I tried making... Er, and I got a sl.coff file at around 562 bytes. ...My sl.bin was Zero bytes. I tried running sh-coff-objcopy manually (since I assumed this was the tool that converted COFF to binary)... --------- sh-coff-objcopy -O binary sl.coff sl.bin --------- Which was the way the flags and arguments were set up in the Makefile, and it keeps generating a sl.bin of Zero bytes. There's no error or anything during the compile process, so...what's wrong here?

		Omni	Jan 6, 2005
		...Fixed some stuff. Now it says... ----------- "No rule to make target ../common/cinit.o, needed by sl.coff. Stop." ----------- How can this be? By an implicit rule, Make should try to use the defined GCC to create any needed O file from a present .C file, and even if that wasn't enough Sega defined a pattern rule to turn all .C files into .O files at the bottom of the Akira sample makefile anyway, so why isn't this working?

		Omni	Jan 6, 2005
		New problem. I tried to create my own makefile..., and, technically, it works. I ran into this problem. --------- error: stray \26 at end of program. --------- This happens on every single file from the SGL I try to compile. Samples, SGL.h, any C files I find... So, I pulled up Textpad and went into some of these files, and sure enough there's some unrecognized symbol at the bottom of every file instead of a newline. ...So now I've got three questions. 1) Anyone else have this problem? 2) I used Powerarchive to unzip this stuff, would that have caused some corruption? 3) Why do Sega's makefiles seem to ignore this, yet mine doesn't? I tried re-downloading the SGL, just to make sure it didn't glitch or anything, but that weird symbol at the bottom of all files is still there... ...I apologize that I haven't figured this out yet...

		antime	Jan 6, 2005
		The stray \26s are DOS end-of-file markers. ExCyber made a cleaned-up version of the SGL archive which fixes this and some other things. He also made it easier to set up to use KPIT's toolchain.

		vreuzon	Jan 6, 2005
		The stray \26s are DOS end-of-file markers Yes. I went into the same problem. Simply remove the end of file char in each problematic file, and it shoud work.

		Omni	Jan 6, 2005
		I'll try ExCyber's version soon. Thanks.