1. https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x
2. I am running a version I compiled myself from the latest code, which already has the next (unreleased) version number.

A new release (0.83.4) should be out in the next couple of days (probably around the 2nd or 3rd or August). I suggest you wait a few days and test the next version, as it has received quite a few updates for keyboards and codepages which could very well fix your problem.

Hello !

OK thanks for this information, is it complicated to compile ? Are you on Linux ? Me under Windows...

Greetings !

Linux.

Compiling on Linux is very easy. You just need to install a few pre-requisite packages using your package manager, pull the GIT repository and run the build script. You can literally go from a plain Linux workstation installation, to compiling a project like dosbox-x in minutes.

Setting it up on Windows is quite a bit more involved. First you need to decided if you want to use MSVC or MinGW as your compiler setup. Then there are quite a few steps to getting these and all the necessary dependencies installed. I have not personally done this on Windows.

Hello !

I installed DOSBox-X on Linux Mint to try with the command:

1apt install snapd
2snap install dosbox-x

Unfortunately this is not the SDL2 version, I am a beginner on Linux, could you tell me how to proceed, with what commands to have the latest SDL2 version ?

Greetings !

Have a look at https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x/bl … ode-description for compiling it yourself.

Hello !

I downloaded the .zip here & followed the instructions:

1./build-debug-sdl2

I have this error message:

config.status: error: cannot find input file: `Makefile.in'

Then with this instruction:

1sudo make install

I have this error message:

make: *** Aucune règle pour fabriquer la cible « install ». Arrêt.

How to proceed ?

Greetings !

Sebiohazard: DOSBox-X 0.83.4 was already released. If you use Windows, you can download the Windows installer from:
DOSBox-X-Setup-Windows-latest.exe

Hello !

OK great but how to do it for Linux ?

Sebiohazard: You can find Linux RPM packages for version 0.83.4 from:

https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x/bl … ster/INSTALL.md

For Linux Mint you will need to use the alien command to convert RPM packages to DEB packages and then install:

https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/821

Hello thank you for your help!

I followed the instructions but it still does not work ... I have this error message:

dosbox-x: error while loading shared libraries: libpng15.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Greetings !

something like

apt-get install libpng15

Should take care of it.

Nothing works... it's hopeless !!!

Why is everything complicated on Linux ?

Sebiohazard wrote on 2020-08-14, 22:02:

Nothing works... it's hopeless !!!

Why is everything complicated on Linux ?

Linux is for advanced users, not beginners, apparently.

Linux is for advanced users, not beginners, apparently.

OK but that doesn't help me...

I'm not the only one with this problem apparently... look here

Greetings !

I installed libpng15 here

But when launching DOSBox-X I always have this error message:

dosbox-x: error while loading shared libraries: libpng15.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Greetings !

Looks like it cannot find it. Most likely because either the directory it is in, is not part of your library path. Or libpng15 has itself missing dependencies and so it is being excluded.

Try running
ldconfig -p|grep libpng

You should get some results back, but it will not include libpng15.
By default the library from that RPM should have been installed in /lib64

I don't have libpng15 installed either, but since I compile it myself, it got linked to libpng16 instead, which I do have installed.

In any case, running
sudo ldconfig
Will cause the library db to be updated, but that should have been done automatically when you installed the RPM package. So if that fails to include the library, you may need to add the path to your system library paths using:

sudo sh -c "echo /lib64 > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/lib64.conf"
sudo ldconfig

Hello !

Thanks for your help !

I launched the command:

1ldconfig -p|grep libpng

& here are the feedback:

1libpng16.so.16 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng16.so.16
2	libpng16.so.16 (libc6) => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpng16.so.16

DOSBox still does not launch...

Greetings !

Did you try the other commands?

As long as "ldconfig|grep libpng" does not find libpng15, than neither will that dosbox-x build, which depends on it. Did you check where that RPM package installed its files? I expect it to be /lib64 but you did not confirm.

Hello !

Yes I executed the other commands as you told me:

1sudo sh -c "echo /lib64 > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/lib64.conf"
2sudo ldconfig

But that doesn't change anything I'm sorry...

Good morning all !

I found this tutorial here... thought it was interesting to share it with you 😀

I am surprised to learn that one can mount an ISO image in Windows 98 with DOSBox-X with this command:

1imgmount d win98.iso -t iso -fs none -ide 2m

In the tutorials that I read you always had to copy the contents of the Windows 98 CD-Rom into a directory... strange...

Greetings !