my debian system that I use is currently not available, but the compiling process is pretty simple

Simple? The compiling itself was simple. After the work with installing the whole *-dev stuff. After looking working with the dosbox_0.72-1.1.diff.gz to extract the debian directory with the build rules. After changing changelog, DEBIAN.readme and dosbox.conf.example. After applying the patch in the bios_keyboard.cpp. After searching for the command for the build process...

Dunno why the hell you'd want to apply all those custom modifications,
compiles fine out of the box, and the dependencies can usually be installed
easily with a package manager.

I wanted to create a deb to keep my system clear. The only modification is the patch to bios_keyboard.cpp wich seems to be needed. It is an easy patch. Simply removing two slashes before a define. The stuff in the debian directory seems to be needed for the deb build process. There were a lot of patches in the diff for 0.72 wich i havn't applied because i think they were bugfixes from the cvs versions or they were patches by the maintainers.

To be true, the compiling by self process is to complicated for beginners. But beginners wouldn't really use Linux on the desktop 😉 But i think binaries for the most popular linux distributions, those who don't have the actual dosbox in their reposities or in their backports, would be useful for a lot of people.

Regards,
Andreas

Windows and OSX might be easier for beginners to be true.

nudgegoonies wrote:

To be true, the compiling by self process is to complicated for beginners. But beginners wouldn't really use Linux on the desktop 😉 But i think binaries for the most popular linux distributions, those who don't have the actual dosbox in their reposities or in their backports, would be useful for a lot of people.

Regards,
Andreas

I have made a deb for you of the latest version. It has all of the requirements that dosbox has I do not think I put the required packages into the deb so you will need to install them yourself if you are missing them.

why don't you want to compile the sources?

Installiung the dependencies (the required dev-packages) is pretty easy. And if you don't want to mess with your system, well:

You don't actually have to do a "make install"! "Configure" and "make" will suffice, after that you can just run the executable from your home directory like this: "./dosbox". No messing around with your system, all of root's directories will stay tidy.

😀