how do i restore lower case filenames in a source code package?

unclejed613 · 01-01-2010, 10:38 PM

i downloaded a source code package for an old multi-platform game. unfortunately, the author, when he created the .zip archive of the source code, zipped it in DOS, and so all of the file names are in all caps. when i run the configure script, it errors out, not being able to find any of the files (which originally were in lower case.

so, other than the extremely tedious process of renaming each file, one by one, is there any way to fix this so it will build properly? this game was written in 1996, so i don't think i'm the first person to bump into this problem.

evo2 · 01-01-2010, 11:05 PM

I'm sure some people could do this in a one liner, but here are 3 ugly lines of bash/sed that could work

for f in * ; do
mv $f $(echo $f | sed 'y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/')
done

Evo2.

unclejed613 · 01-01-2010, 11:57 PM

actually i found it... it was in the /unix/readme file:

Code:

How to install the sources from a xxxx.zip file:

1) unzip -La xxxx.zip

   On older 'unzip' use:

   unzip -xa xxxx.zip

   Will create a directory 'fly' with all the stuff underneath. The '-a'
   is needed since it was packed on MSDOS. If you do not have 'unzip'
   then get it, it compiles nicely on most systems.

Ark unzipped it with all uppercase, but when i did it with unzip -La it unzipped correctly with lower case file names

unclejed613 · 01-02-2010, 12:06 AM

oh well, won't compile anyway. gcc compiler doesn't recognize a command line argument in the make script

Code:

fly8$ make
gcc -I. -DUNIX -DLINUX -m486 -Wall -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer  -IUNIX              -c need.c
cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-m486"
make: *** [need.o] Error 1

evo2 · 01-02-2010, 01:21 AM

That flag has been deprecated for about 5 years, try -march=486 instead.

Cheers,

Evo2.

knudfl · 01-02-2010, 02:29 AM

*

Which game ?
Have you got a link to the application ?

unclejed613 · 01-02-2010, 09:33 AM

FLY8 by Eyal Lebidinsky. i originally got it as a DOS game, but he originally wrote it for DEC, then ported it to unix, linux, sparc, dos and windows. i've got the dos and windows versions, which run ok in dosbox and wine (wine seems to have difficulty with the screen colors, but it otherwise works ok). the linux binary refuses to run, so i figured i'd install it from source, but because it was written for an older version of gcc, i'm having problems with it. i'm not really too well versed in C. i once wrote a test pattern program for SVGA monitors, but that was a dos EXE compiled from Basic, and 14 years ago (i'm an analog hardware engineer, not much of a programmer).
http://samba.org/ftp/eyal/fly8/released/index.html