* An example of supporting legacy applications using dosbox ;-)

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=6895

pkgs/games/keen4/builder.sh

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+source $stdenv/setup
+
+ensureDir $out/share/keen4
+unzip -j $dist -d $out/share/keen4
+
+ensureDir $out/bin
+cat > $out/bin/keen4 <<EOF
+#! $SHELL -e
+if test -z "\$HOME"; then
+    echo "HOME directory not set"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Game wants to write in the current directory, but of course we can't
+# let it write in the Nix store.  So create symlinks to the game files
+# in ~/.keen4 and execute game from there.
+mkdir -p \$HOME/.keen4
+cd \$HOME/.keen4
+
+ln -sf $out/share/keen4/* .
+
+dosbox ./KEEN4E.EXE -fullscreen -exit || true
+
+# Cleanup the symlinks.
+for i in *; do
+    if test -L "\$i"; then
+        rm "\$i"
+    fi
+done
+EOF
+chmod +x $out/bin/keen4