Re: Trouble building a robot

Hi Tennessee

I guess you forgot to set up the environment (of course you need to 
adjust the paths):

export TORCS_BASE=/usr/src/torcs/torcs-1.2.4
export MAKE_DEFAULT=$TORCS_BASE/Make-default.mk

See also http://www.berniw.org/torcs/install/torcs-setup.html

Beware, the robot generated by robotgen will need a few adjustments, 
because the script is not up to date (I did not check it for a long 
time, I guess some char* must be now const char* but the compiler will 
tell you).

Best regards

Bernhard


On 04/06/2012 12:21 AM, Tennessee Leeuwenburg wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having trouble building my own robot. I have things compiling,
> it's just ... not there ... when I run a practise race.
>
> I'm on Ubuntu 11.10. I realised that I think I need to compile Torcs
> myself into order to build robot drivers, so after a while I
> downloaded the sources rather than using the apt installer. I did need
> to apply the patch found on the homepage in order to get it to work,
> but after finding that, things are fine. I compiled with a prefix
> (/home/tennessee/tdev) rather than putting things in /usr, but that is
> no problem. The program runs fine, I can race as a human driver etc.
>
> I tried to work through the tutorial found at http://www.berniw.org/.
> I found I had a few small issues, then a big one. First, I am pretty
> sure I'm running robotgen from the right place. It builds an extra
> directory for my car name in src/drivers/mycarname, and puts the
> schedule of files in there. The tutorial says to run "make" from that
> directory. If I do that, then what I get is "make: *** No targets.
> Stop." . So I tried something else, what was to run "make" from the
> top-level directory and build the whole application. This seemed to
> work. I now have mycarname.so and mycarname.o files in that directory.
> So I ran make install to finish things off.
>
> However, when I run torcs, the driver is simply not there in the list
> under "configure race".
>
> Is there anything else I should be doing, or anything else that I can
> check to try and resolve the issue?
>
> Thanks,
> -Tennessee
>


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