Some things to note about this package & questions:
- There's no official VCS repo and the author doesn't want automated
tools to download files from his homepage; there's an unofficial git
repo at GitLab but I found it unsuitable so I'm hosting the sources
specifically for Guix at GitHub now:
https://github.com/TaylanUB/higan
Is this OK, or is there a place we can upload the original source
bundle for Guix to download from?
- I forgot if there's a guideline for this: the release versions are
called 'v097', 'v098' etc. with always a 'v' in front. Should that
'v' appear in the version field of the package or should it be
stripped?
- As seems to be tradition among emulator developers, the build system
and the program's handling of the file system are a big pile of poo,
so:
* Is it principally OK to reuse the standard `build' and `install'
phase procedures a second time, just with the CWD changed, as I do
here?
* The program insists on looking in ~/.local/share for some data files
that are actually installed in $prefix/share; does my strategy here
look OK, in that I wrap the executable to copy the data files into
~/.local/share every time the program is run?
Thank you!
Taylan
>From 707e8fc3c2ba1293693168b1d7a34e6000671158 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Taylan=20Ulrich=20Bay=C4=B1rl=C4=B1/Kammer?=
<taylanbayi...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2015 20:45:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add higan.
* gnu/packages/games.scm (higan): New variable.
---
gnu/packages/games.scm | 92 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 92 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/games.scm b/gnu/packages/games.scm
index e552d09..57f8907 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/games.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/games.scm
@@ -2243,3 +2243,95 @@ Red Eclipse provides fast paced and accessible gameplay.")
license:cc-by-sa3.0
license:cc-by3.0
license:cc0)))))
+
+(define-public higan
+ (package
+ (name "higan")
+ (version "v098")
+ (source
+ (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append
+ "https://github.com/TaylanUB/higan/archive/"; version ".tar.gz"))
+ (file-name (string-append name "-" version ".tar.gz"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32 "12snxrk8wa94x3l69qcimgm0xc22zjgf7vzhckp2lzyfbf27950v"))))
+ (build-system gnu-build-system)
+ (native-inputs
+ `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)))
+ (inputs
+ `(("alsa-lib" ,alsa-lib)
+ ("ao" ,ao)
+ ("eudev" ,eudev)
+ ("gtk+" ,gtk+-2)
+ ("gtksourceview-2" ,gtksourceview-2)
+ ("libxv" ,libxv)
+ ("mesa" ,mesa)
+ ("openal" ,openal)
+ ("pulseaudio" ,pulseaudio)
+ ("sdl" ,sdl)))
+ (arguments
+ '(#:phases
+ (let ((build-phase (assoc-ref %standard-phases 'build))
+ (install-phase (assoc-ref %standard-phases 'install)))
+ (modify-phases %standard-phases
+ ;; The higan build system has no configure phase.
+ (delete 'configure)
+ (add-before 'build 'chdir-to-higan
+ (lambda _
+ (chdir "higan")))
+ (add-before 'install 'create-/share/applications
+ (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
+ (let ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out")))
+ ;; It seems the author forgot to do this in the Makefile.
+ (mkdir-p (string-append out "/share/applications")))))
+ (add-after 'install 'chdir-to-icarus
+ (lambda _
+ (chdir "../icarus")))
+ (add-after 'chdir-to-icarus 'build-icarus build-phase)
+ (add-after 'build-icarus 'install-icarus install-phase)
+ (add-after 'install-icarus 'wrap-higan-executable
+ (lambda* (#:key inputs outputs #:allow-other-keys)
+ (let* ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out"))
+ (bin (string-append out "/bin"))
+ (higan (string-append bin "/higan"))
+ (higan-original (string-append higan "-original"))
+ (bash (string-append (assoc-ref inputs "bash")
+ "/bin/bash"))
+ (coreutils (assoc-ref inputs "coreutils"))
+ (mkdir (string-append coreutils "/bin/mkdir"))
+ (cp (string-append coreutils "/bin/cp")))
+ ;; First, have the executable make sure ~/.local/share/higan
+ ;; contains up to date files. Higan insists on looking there
+ ;; for these data files.
+ (rename-file higan higan-original)
+ (with-output-to-file higan
+ (lambda ()
+ (display
+ (string-append
+ "#!" bash "\n"
+ ;; higan doesn't respect $XDG_DATA_HOME
+ mkdir " -p ~/.local/share\n"
+ cp " -r " out "/share/higan ~/.local/share\n"
+ "exec " higan-original))))
+ (chmod higan #o555)
+ ;; Second, make sure higan will find icarus in PATH.
+ (wrap-program higan
+ `("PATH" ":" prefix (,bin))))))))
+ #:make-flags
+ (list "compiler=g++"
+ (string-append "prefix=" (assoc-ref %outputs "out")))
+ ;; There is no test suite.
+ #:tests? #f))
+ (home-page "http://byuu.org/emulation/higan/";)
+ (synopsis "Nintendo multi-system emulator")
+ (description
+ "higan (formerly bsnes) is an emulator for multiple Nintendo video game
+consoles, including the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES/Famicom), Super
+Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES/Super Famicom), Game Boy, Game Boy
+Color (GBC), and Game Boy Advance (GBA). It also supports the subsystems
+Super Game Boy, BS-X Satellaview, and Sufami Turbo.")
+ ;; As noted in these files among more:
+ ;; - icarus/icarus.cpp
+ ;; - higan/emulator/emulator.hpp
+ (license license:gpl3)))
--
2.7.4
