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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace & FreeSpace Open Support => Topic started by: darckense on June 25, 2012, 04:32:06 am
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Hi all,
I'm a newcomer to FreeSpace 2. I discovered the existence of this project with Wing Commander Saga, and I was happy to see that it run on Linux. :-)
I followed the instructions to install FreeSpace Open described here :
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=79545.0
I successfully compiled FSO from sources, but I'm unable to compile the wxLauncher.
I use the version described here :
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=67950.0
and followed instructions in the ReadMe.
I think that I have all the dependencies installed. I'm running Debian Sid.
I'm using the installation precised in the ReadMe :
$ cmake -DUSE_OPENAL=1 -DDEVELOPMENT_MODE=1 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local ../
$ make
but got an error at make (look's like there is some error with onlinehelp.htp)
Outputs of cmake and make are in the attached documents.
Does anyone here could help me compile the launcher ?
Many Thanks ! :-D
Darckense
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Does your OS recognise the file generated/onlinehelp.htb? Here's the output I get from file:
$ file generated/onlinehelp.htb
generated/onlinehelp.htb: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract
As a guess, maybe you don't have zip/unzip installed? (which would be very odd, but I don't have any other ideas at the moment)
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Just for info, you can perfectly do everything the launcher does with command line flags. Just so that problem doesn't prevent you from playing, since you said you managed to compile FSO itself.
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Does your OS recognise the file generated/onlinehelp.htb? Here's the output I get from file:
$ file generated/onlinehelp.htb
generated/onlinehelp.htb: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract
As a guess, maybe you don't have zip/unzip installed? (which would be very odd, but I don't have any other ideas at the moment)
Hi niffiwan,
Yes, my OS recognize this file. In fact :
$ file generated/onlinehelp.htb
give me the same output as you.
To be sure, I also installed lua-zip package, but it did'nt solve my problem... :-/
Thanks,
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Just for info, you can perfectly do everything the launcher does with command line flags. Just so that problem doesn't prevent you from playing, since you said you managed to compile FSO itself.
Yes, I tried to launch FSO and it works. I suppose the command line flags you are reffering to are :
http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Command-Line_Reference ?
I'll have to try this tonight and figure out which one I should use ! :-D
I'm still wondering why I can't compile the launcher...
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Are you sure you have the entire code checked out correctly? In the make output, you have a lot of "WARNING: File does not exist to be bundled into archive!". I don't have those warnings, and am able to compile wxLauncher correctly.
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Yes, I tried to launch FSO and it works. I suppose the command line flags you are reffering to are :
http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Command-Line_Reference ?
I'll have to try this tonight and figure out which one I should use ! :-D
Yup, those ones. I'll post you the command line flags I use this evening, unless someone does it before I get back home.
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Are you sure you have the entire code checked out correctly? In the make output, you have a lot of "WARNING: File does not exist to be bundled into archive!". I don't have those warnings, and am able to compile wxLauncher correctly.
I got a bunch of warnings similar to these ones, and it compiled OK - that was using the 0.9.0 release. I don't think I got those warnings with the latest checkout from mercurial/googlecode.
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Are you sure you have the entire code checked out correctly? In the make output, you have a lot of "WARNING: File does not exist to be bundled into archive!". I don't have those warnings, and am able to compile wxLauncher correctly.
I got a bunch of warnings similar to these ones, and it compiled OK - that was using the 0.9.0 release. I don't think I got those warnings with the latest checkout from mercurial/googlecode.
Well, I'm using the 0.9.0 release from May 30th on googlecode. I checked again to be sure, and the SHA1 checksum of the archive was OK. I didn't try to checkout with googlecode, I'll try that tonight to see if it fixes my problem.
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Yup, those ones. I'll post you the command line flags I use this evening, unless someone does it before I get back home.
Thanks. :-D
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OK guys, I have checkout googlecode, and this fixed my problem. I successfully compiled the launcher ! :-)
Thanks for your advices, and thanks for the game ! It's great.
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Darckense
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Thanks to everyone who helped out in the thread.
The "warning" from the builder is not a problem. It's just the .htb compiler being overly verbose about something that doesn't really matter. We just committed a change (http://code.google.com/p/wxlauncher/source/detail?r=e83d5691f37b981f278f92303106dcde3f923bab) that makes the message not appear in general, since it's just noise.
As for the reason that it was failing to build:
generated/onlinehelp.htb: file not recognized: File format not recognized
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [wxlauncher] Erreur 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/wxlauncher.dir/all] Erreur 2
make: *** [all] Erreur 2
As far as I can tell, newer versions of automake or CMake (I'm not sure which) try to link the .htb file into the final executable, which the linker doesn't like. The issue was fixed in trunk at the beginning of June, but unfortunately we have not had a chance to release an update yet.