VBA Express.

Author:   Achraf cherti, 2005-2006
Website:  http://vbaexpress.tuxfamily.org/
Email:    achrafcherti@gmail.com

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Introduction
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VBA Express is a VisualBoyAdvance frontend. It can help you:
* to configure easily the graphics, sounds, controls, paths...
* to run your games without console :-) but with the graphical "Play!" Button

This version has been tested with VisualBoyAdvance version 1.7.1 and 1.7.2.

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How to install the emulator, VisualBoyAdvance?
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Install the emulator:
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VBA Express requires the emulator (VisualBoyAdvance). It is used to run your
GameBoy Advance games. You can download it at: http://vba.ngemu.com

For hasty people, you can download the binary archive for Linux directly at:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/vba/VisualBoyAdvance-1.7.1-SDL-linux-glibc22.tar.gz?download
(it's version 1.7.1)

In the archive VisualBoyAdvance-1.7.1-SDL-linux-glibc22.tar.gz you have some 
files. You must copy "VisualBoyAdvance" executable in /usr/bin (or in another 
path defined in the $PATH variable).

IMPORTANT: VBA Express searches the VisualBoyAdvance in $PATH

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How to install VBA Express (the frontend):
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You must copy "vbaexpress" executable in /usr/bin (or in another
path defined in the $PATH variable)

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What's the tools used to create VBA Express?
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VBA Express is programmed with C++ language. Compiled with gcc
and make. The source code has been edited with gvim (www.gvim.org).
The GUI with fltk (www.fltk.org) and FLU.
The OS used is Linux with the distribution: Fedora Core 4

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How to compile the source?
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To compile the program from sources, you need some requirements:
   - SDL     (www.libsdl.org)
   - Fltk    (www.fltk.org)
   - FLU     (www.osc.edu/~jbryan/FLU/)

In my example. You have the source archive in:
/home/achraf/vbaexpress-1.1-source.tar.gz

Type (the $ is the shell... do not type it):

$ cd /home/achraf
$ tar xvzf vbaexpress-1.1-source.tar.gz

You have how "vbaexpress-1.1" directory. Now, type:

$ cd vbaexpress-1.1
$ make

And to install it type "su" to have root priviledges:
$ su
password:

And now, you can install VBA Express with:

$ make install

