Well, using is perhaps a bit optimistic. I can't even convince a GUI to start :|
Haha, I have been using Arch for a few years now but I do remember a lot of trial and error getting myself used to installing everything as I wanted without breaking it. There were quite a few occasions of wiping and starting again after I got a bit too cocky with the command line. I love it now though, still consider myself very inexperienced but going back to other distros makes me feel a bit limited.
The warnings should not cause issues, but let me know because my test vm has no GUI so I have not actually been able to run wxLaucnher.
Thanks,
It has successfully compiled now, thank you so much for the assistance. I get the warnings but they don't stop with a fatal error.
I can run the launcher and it pops up and displays itself though I am receiving pop-up errors when I launch it and when I select the root directory for Freespace 2. Looking at the error logs I think that these errors must be related to the compile warning errors but they don't seem to stop the launcher running.
I have successfully chosen the root directory and the executable and configured my graphics settings, however the audio selection has issues and it fails to save to the profile and requires me to reselect OpenAL each time I start the launcher, generating its own pop-up error when it does so. The notification ticker at the bottom of the launcher also states "OpenAL32.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory".
I also have no advanced settings as it tells me that the executable did not generate a flag file. I have tried with FS2 Open 3.7.0 and 3.7.2 (RC5), with the same result.
Attempting to launch Freespace 2, with no mods selected, results in another error and it does not run. The notification ticker at the bottom of the launcher also states "can't open file '/home/james/.fs2_open/' (error 21: Is a directory)" and "Couldn't create 'data' folder /home/james/.fs2_open/data". I manually created that directory to see what would happen and this time I don't get a pop-up error but it still fails to run with a notification ticker of "can't open file '/home/james/.fs2_open/fs2_open.ini' (error 2: No such file or directory". However, with me having manually created the ".fs2_open" directory in my home folder, running the game does result in it adding the "fs2_open.ini" file to the directory and a subdirectory of "data" which contains a file of "cmdline_fso.cfg".
I have saved a copy of each error I am receiving and will attach them here in case they are of use to you in further tweaking. Let me know if there is something I have missed or that you need me to test. Thanks again!
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