At this point I am not sure what the next step should be. I'm rebooting the Windows VM since that's often what you just have to do with Windows, and I suppose I could try compiling a clean copy of un-modified vice source code - at least to help determine if something I did to the source is affecting the build.
Still, that was not the outcome I was hoping for... If it would at least give me an error message - some kind of loose thread to start pulling on - that would be something. Instead, it just goes to start, and then nothing happens. Again, if I try to run it from a command prompt, it just returns back to the command prompt.
At least tcpser compiled and runs. Maybe I could try testing that with two instances of telnet to at least confirm that it is working under Windows... It does give back the output you'd expect when you run it in a command prompt though...
Actually, this time when I tried asking for help in the console (x64sc --help), it returned the entire help menu as it should! That means that the binary is working! Let me see if I can build a dist zip - I probably need to install the roms and all that. It may not be running because it can't find any of the ROM files.
Ok, so it looks like it built a zip file that appears to be sane; I extracted the contents and tried to run x64sc.exe from there and it is complaining about missing .dll files now, specifically libatk-1.0-0.dll. Something is still not quite right, but it is getting closer!
That is something I have never done before. 