Obtaining startextdump and makestardb binaries

[Simons Mith]

I am trying to get hold of a startextdump binary that works under either Debian stretch or Wine. Don't mind which. The handful of pointers I have found are so old the links are broken. Celestia itself is behaving perfectly, but I can't find [either of these tools]
Can anyone help out?
Thank you very much.

[onetwothree]

Hi Simons Mith,

Have you tried to compile them on your own? See src/tools/stardb directory in celestia sources.

[Simons Mith]

Tried, yes, succeeded, no. I dealt with the first two compilation errors but then hit
"Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.3 and < 4.0) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!"

As Qt <4.0 is ancient history I gave up at that point.

Haven't looked at John V.V.'s QT5 build yet, because it seemed to still be a work in progress.

However, if I did manage to compile that version successfully, would I get these extra tools?
Do I need to compile in debug mode or anything?

The downloadable executables I've found don't appear to include either file.

[onetwothree]

You don't need to use configure for these tools, actually they don't have a Makefile for Unices. I'll try to create one in a few days.

[onetwothree]

Hi Simons,

I've built these tools on Debian stretch compatible system. They should be installed into /opt/celestia, just unpack tar.xz in '/'. Or you can install them wherever you want if you know how to amend/remove rpath

Grab the tarball from here.

[Simons Mith]

Thanks, I'm starting to use it now.