How to use "other options"?

[s1eve-mcdichae1]

DATAPATH
HOMEDIR
SCALE
FULLSCREEN_ONLY

Are these runtime options, or build? What's the syntax? Nothing I have tried has worked:

(/path/to/cfg is where I want the cfg to be saved and /path/to/.EXE is where JAZZ.EXE already exists.)

./OpenJazz DATAPATH /path/to/cfg /path/to/.EXE

./OpenJazz DATAPATH=/path/to/cfg /path/to/.EXE

./OpenJazz HOMEDIR /path/to/.EXE

make DATAPATH /path/to/cfg

make DATAPATH=/path/to/cfg

DATAPATH=/path/to/cfg make

...in all cases, openjazz.cfg and openjazz.log are saved to cwd (current working directory), even when I used HOMEDIR it was still saved to cwd and not ~.

What am I misunderstanding?

(I'm using RetroPie / Debian Linux)

[carstene1ns]

All of them are build options. DATAPATH and HOMEDIR only affect the loading of game files, they are not used for configuration or config.

I want to revamp the file loading, so that your usecase works, but the branch is unfinished yet. (See also issue #53) For the time being I would recommend a simple wrapper script, that changes to the dedicated directory and then launches with options.

[s1eve-mcdichae1]

Okay thanks. So to start it I've got a script that changes directory to where I want the config to be, then calls the executable from where it's installed to, and passes the path to where I have the game data:

cd "/path/to/config/dir"

"/path/to/OpenJazz" "/path/to/gamedata/dir"

This loads the game in a tiny window on my screen. After adjusting the "resolution" and "scale" it fits the screen better, but I still get a mouse-pointer in the top corner. I thought maybe FULLSCREEN_ONLY would solve this but I still can't figure out how to activate it.

You say they are build options. Do I need to do something with the Makefile, or can I just pass command-line args (how?)

I don't know what I'm doing; I tried to do something anyway, it didn't work:

make FULLSCREEN_ONLY said make: *** No rule to make target 'FULLSCREEN_ONLY'. Stop.

I tried again with make FULLSCREEN_ONLY=1 which at least did build, but I don't see any difference in result. I also tried with =true and =On, to no effect.

And how would I use the SCALE option? And would that force a particular scale, or just default to it?

[fabiangreffrath]

Could you try make CFLAGS="-DFULLSCREEN_ONLY"?

[s1eve-mcdichae1]

@fabiangreffrath well, that did compile, but the file it produced was identical to the one produced with simply make, and the mouse pointer is still visible.

That's okay though because I see now (./OpenJazz -h) that there is a runtime option for (-f)ullscreen, so I can just add that to my launch command. No more mouse pointer here!

[carstene1ns]

Kind of XY problem here. 🙂