add compilation notes

[retokromer]

This is a first draft regarding macOS. I will add Windows 10, as well as Debian 9.5 or Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS as soon as… I have the time ;-)

[ianfixes]

We should look at #100 first just in case this has changed

[retokromer]

When will this be the case? (I will stop working on the code, and merge my own patches only once this has been done.)

[retokromer]

@ianfixes FYI: today I also compiled and tested on Debian 9.5 and Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS (also on Windows), as well as on Slackware 14.2.

[ianfixes]

I don't have an estimate, it depends on what comes from the discussion at kanjitalk755/macemu#14

When I first brought this code over, I didn't realize that @kanjitalk755's fork had become the unofficial master -- many other branches from personal forks have been merged into that fork. So it may be that we need to rebase all our changes on top of that one. Time will tell, and I don't think it will be too terrible for me to sort it all out.

[retokromer]

Is this attempt to revitalise and coordinate the project still moving forward?

[ianfixes]

Yes, although I admit I'm going down a bit of a rabbit hole regarding CI. Travis CI's future looks tenuous, and I haven't had much luck getting stuff to compile on Appveyor. That led me to consider Azure, given Microsoft's commitment to stand behind it. But no matter what, my intended contribution to this project was going to be the test/release process and I haven't been able to get that working with any modern Windows tech.

[ianfixes]

What do you think of these merge conflicts btw?

[retokromer]

What do you think of these merge conflicts btw?

I have no idea at all why there are conflicts when I wish to add a document without changing any of the already existing ones.

[retokromer]

I have put this information on Gist.

[ianfixes]

Many warnings are generated which I am investigating.

Did you reach any conclusions on these?

[retokromer]

I could silence the majority of them by cleaning the code.

[ianfixes]

I had hoped to delay merging this until I got the CI working (i.e. I wanted the compilation notes and the CI configuration to agree, as a way of verifying their correctness). Unfortunately (as of right now) there haven't been any replies to my help forum question. I'm stuck on Windows builds specifically.

[retokromer]

No problem, once it’s a good time, I can open a new PR.