Re: Trouble building a robot

Hi Tennessee

> Wow, sorry for the non-reply. I appreciate your response. I have ended

No problem, often people have to be patient with me too (because this is 
not business, I enjoy answering when I am in the mood).

> up using version 1.3.1 instead of 1.3.3. This is to be compatible with
> the simulated racing car championship codebase, and this is working well
> for me. Someone else on the net has posted a Python client for this, so
> I'm now up and running (although not up with the latest core codebase).
>
> I may try to get 1.3.3 running and I'll use your advice at that point,
> but right now I'm happy :)

Great:-)

Best regards

Bernhard

>
> Thanks again for the reply.
>
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Bernhard Wymann <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     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 <http://default.mk>
>
>     See also http://www.berniw.org/torcs/__install/torcs-setup.html
>     <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
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> --------------------------------------------------
> Tennessee Leeuwenburg
> http://myownhat.blogspot.com/
> "Don't believe everything you think"


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