Debian Linux, Pipmak won't run

[NigeC]

I can't get the Linux version to run for some reason,  does it require other programs? its the full build of Debian 5, it didn't work in ubuntu either
its no real biggy as I can run the windows exe in Wine.. I was just interested.. the lastest demo works great

[Aidan Gauland-2]

NigeC wrote:
> I can't get the Linux version to run for some reason,  does it require other
> programs? its the full build of Debian 5, it didn't work in ubuntu either
> its no real biggy as I can run the windows exe in Wine.. I was just
> interested.. the lastest demo works great

What's the symptom?  What happens when you try to run it?

  -Aidan

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[NigeC]

hi Aidan..
I've ran it in the terminal, It looks like some components are missing, one being libopenal, the version I have is libopenal1, i tried adding the dev version of libopenal but it still get no folder/file
it also had libSDL_ttf-2.0, libSDL_image-1.2.as missing but I was able to fix that

[Aidan Gauland-2]

NigeC wrote:
> hi Aidan..
> I've ran it in the terminal, It looks like some components are missing, one
> being libopenal, the version I have is libopenal1, i tried adding the dev
> version of libopenal but it still get no folder/file
> it also had libSDL_ttf-2.0, libSDL_image-1.2.as missing but I was able to
> fix that

What do you mean by "get no folder/file"?  Does it complain about missing
libraries?  If you get an error message about not being able not find
libraries, then it's probably the operating system failing to even execute Pipmak.

  -Aidan

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[NigeC]

the error is:
home/nige/pipmak# ./pipmak
./pipmak: error while loading shared libraries: libopenal.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
the  the version of libopenal i have is newer

[Aidan Gauland-2]

NigeC wrote:
> the error is:
> home/nige/pipmak# ./pipmak
> ./pipmak: error while loading shared libraries: libopenal.so.0: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> the  the version of libopenal i have is newer

Are you using the latest development revision from Subversion?  If you are,
then check out again, because I just made a change to the Linux Makefile that
may help.  Also, if you're building from the source in Subversion, you should
set usesyslibs=t when you run make (i.e. type "make usesyslibs=t" instead of
just "make").

Hope this helps,
Aidan

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[NigeC]

Aidan Gauland-2 wrote:

NigeC wrote:
> the error is:
> home/nige/pipmak# ./pipmak
> ./pipmak: error while loading shared libraries: libopenal.so.0: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> the  the version of libopenal i have is newer

Are you using the latest development revision from Subversion?  If you are,
then check out again, because I just made a change to the Linux Makefile that
may help.  Also, if you're building from the source in Subversion, you should
set usesyslibs=t when you run make (i.e. type "make usesyslibs=t" instead of
just "make").

Hope this helps,
Aidan

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No I haven't been using  Subversion, I just used the released versions. I wouldn't know where to start!

[Aidan Gauland-2]

NigeC wrote:
> No I haven't been using  Subversion, I just used the released versions. I
> wouldn't know where to start!

Oh, great..(NOT!)  OK, here's the deal: recently, I made some major changes to
the Linux build system, and Christian decided to let me, more or less, take
over maintence of the Linux build system.  I made those changes, because I
thought that the Linux build system wasn't very good in some ways
(particularly with linking to libraries).  I hope the next release of Pipmak
will work better on more Linux distros and for you.

In the mean time, might I sugguest a work-around: find the libopenal.so.* on
your system (hint: try the package manager), and make a symbolic named
"libopenal.so.0" to the libopenal.so file.  (There may be several files whose
name starts with "libopenal.so", but only one will be a regular file; link to
the regular file, not one of the links.  All the existing links will link to
the same file.)  If you don't know how to do this, E-mail me off-list, or if
you know how to use IRC, go to #tuxhacker on irc.freenode.net.

  -Aidan

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[NigeC]

Thanks Aidan that worked :) If you want me to test thinks feel free to drop me an email or ask here
The plan is to build a game demo under Linux and try to give the project a push ;)

[Christian Walther]

Thanks for taking care of this, Aidan. Looks like this would be a good
test for your new build procedure, why don't you just make a build and
send it to Nige?

For what it's worth, the official Pipmak 0.2.7 release was built on
Debian 4, with OpenAL from package libopenal0a version 1:0.0.8-4. I have
no idea what the current version is as I haven't updated that virtual
machine since then.

I'm surprised that it works with libopenal.so.1 because as far as I
remember that number is used specifically to mark incompatible library
versions.

cwalther@debian:~$ ldd pipmak/build-linux/pipmak
        ...
         libopenal.so.0 => /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0 (0xb7681000)
        ...

  -Christian


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[NigeC ()]

I'm on Debian 5, the libopenal build is libopenal1 1:1.4.272-2

It didn't run on Ubuntu 9 either, but that was the version you could run inside windows so there wasn't a great deal installed.

I'll gladly help with testing builds or if you can let me know how to I'll build Debian versions