Gargoyle for PocketBook e-readers

A port of Gargoyle, the great interactive fiction player, to PocketBook e-readers.

💡 Only support for Linux based PocketBook readers is envisionned, Android excluded.

🚧 Installation

This project is work in progress. There's nothing to install right now, sorry.

🚧 Build instructions

The build host is expected to be a Linux box. Examples are written with Debian 12 (Bookworm) in mind.

Install build tools:

$ sudo apt install cmake meson 7z build-essentials

Download, unpack and patch PocketBook SDK, then activate SDK and cross-compile 3rd-parties libraries:

$ ./scripts/install-sdk.sh
$ source env_set.sh
$ ./scripts/install-3rd-parties.sh

Finally build:

$ cd garglk
garglk$ git apply ../patchs/fix-missing-pair-constructor.patch
garglk$ git apply ../patchs/fix-linkage.patch
garglk$ cmake --fresh -B build -S . \
    -D CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=ON \
    -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
    -D QT_VERSION=5 \
    -D WITH_LAUNCHER=OFF \
    -D WITH_FREEDESKTOP=OFF \
    -D INSTALL_DEV=ON \
    -D BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF \
    -D SOUND=OFF \
    -D GCC_NO_CXX17=on \
    -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/mnt/ext1/applications/garglk \
    -D CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR=/mnt/ext1/applications/garglk \
    -D CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=/mnt/ext1/applications/garglk \
    -D CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=${BUILDROOT}/SDK-B288/share/cmake/arm_conf.cmake
garglk$ cmake --build build -j$(nproc)
garglk$ cmake --build build -t install DESTDIR=dist

References

• The Interactive Fiction Database huge catalog to test the build with
• MobileRead discussion at the origin of this project