This is the third of a series of savefile-related changes.
This adds early-days experimental support for a completely optional
'sfctool' utility (savefile conversion tool), to be able to export
a savefile's contents into a more portable format. There are likely
to be bugs at this stage. In this initial first-attempt, the export
format is a very simple ascii output.
NetHack can be built entirely, without also building this tool.
NetHack has no dependencies on the tool.
Attempts were made to minimize duplication of existing NetHack code.
To achieve that, unfortunately, #ifdef SFCTOOL and #ifndef SFCTOOL
had to be sprinkled around through some of the existing NetHack
source code, so that it could be re-used for building the utility.
The process for building the sfctool typically recompiles the source
files with #define SFCTOOL and a distinct object file with SF- is
produced.
sfctool notes:
Universal ctags is used and required to produce the sfctool utility.
Some targets were added to the Unix and Windows Makefiles to
facilitate the build process.
make sfctool
That should build a copy in util.
Note: At present, the Unix Makefiles do not copy sfctool over to the
NetHack playground during 'make install' or 'make update'.
Until that gets resolved by someone, The tool will
have to be manually copied there by the builder/admin if
desired.
cp util/sfctool ~/nh/install/games/lib/nethackdir/sfctool
Also, a separate Visual Studio sfctool.sln solution was written and
placed in sys/windows/vs. That has has only very limited testing.
Usage:
i) To convert an existing savefile to an exportascii format
that co-resides with the savefile:
sfctool -c savefile
That *must* be executed on the same platform / architecture /
data model that produced the save file in the first place.
ii) To unconvert an existing exportascii format export file to a
historical format savefile that can then be used by NetHack:
sfctool -u savefile
That must be executed on the same target platform / architecture /
data model that was used to build the NetHack that will
utilize the save file that results.
A Windows example:
sfctool -c Fred.NetHack-saved-game
That should result in creation of Fred.NetHack-saved-game.exportascii
from existing savefile:
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\NetHack\3.7\Fred.NetHack-saved-game
A Unix example:
sfctool -c 1000wizard
That should result in creation of 1000wizard.exportascii.gz
from existing savefile in the playground save directory:
1000wizard.gz
Current Mechanics:
1. Makefile recipe, or script uses universal ctags to produce
util/sf.tags.
2. util/sftags is built and executed to read util/sf.tags and
generate: include/sfproto.h and src/sfdata.c.
3. util/sfctool is built from the following:
generated file compiled with -DSFCTOOL:
src/sfdata.c -> sfdata.o
existing files compiled with -DSFCTOOL:
util/sfctool.c -> sfctool.o
util/sfexpasc.c -> sfexpasc.o
src/alloc.c -> sf-alloc.o
src/monst.c -> sf-monst.o
src/objects.c -> sf-objects.o
src/sfbase.c -> sfbase.o
src/sfstruct.c -> sfstruct.o
src/nhlua.c -> sf-nhlua.o
util/panic.c -> panic.o
src/date.c -> sf-date.o
src/decl.c -> sf-decl.o
src/artifact.c -> sf-artifact.o
src/dungeon.c -> sf-dungeon.o
src/end.c -> sf-end.o
src/engrave.c -> sf-engrave.o
src/cfgfiles.c -> sf-cfgfiles.o
src/files.c -> sf-files.o
src/light.c -> sf-light.o
src/mdlib.c -> sf-mdlib.o
src/mkmaze.c -> sf-mkmaze.o
src/mkroom.c -> sf-mkroom.o
src/o_init.c -> sf-o_init.o
src/region.c -> sf-region.o
src/restore.c -> sf-restore.o
src/rumors.c -> sf-rumors.o
src/sys.c -> sf-sys.o
src/timeout.c -> sf-timeout.o
src/track.c -> sf-track.o
src/version.c -> sf-version.o
src/worm.c -> sf-worm.o
src/strutil.c -> strutil.o
The consolidation of global variables from scattered source
files into decl.c and declared in decl.h was begun in 3.7.0.
Their placement in common files was done for centralized
initialization and potential re-initialization during a
"play again" scenario.
It wasn't really necessary for all of them to be housed in a
single huge structure to meet the "play again" requirement,
and the single huge structure has been a little unwieldy when
it comes to maintenance.
Following this commit, instead of one single extremely large structure
named 'g' to house all of the relocated global variables, they
are distributed into several ga through gz.
To make things easy for the developer, each variable is placed
into the struct corresponding to the starting letter of the variable.
That way, no lookup is required in order to know which struct houses
a particular variable, it is a simple match to the starting letter
for all the centralized global variables.
A global variable named 'amulets', would be found in ga.
ga.amulets
^ ^
A global varable named 'move', would be found in gm.
gm.moves
^ ^
A global variable named 'val_for_n_or_more' would be found in gv.
gv.val_for_n_or_more
^ ^
A global variable named 'youmonst' would be found in gy.
gy.youmonst
^ ^
Replace a few tabs, remove a few trailing spaces, and shorten a few
long lines.
Readme still needs another fix: if falsely claims to contain all bug
fixes since 3.6.4. I wasn't sure how to reword that so didn't try.
Also, fix a couple of old typos in Install.vms.
