Burning Sand 2 for Linux

[Sieben]

i compiled a linux version of BS2 and i need a few testers. i'm running ubuntu in a virtual machine. it would be great if you could test other distributions. to run it you need the following libraries:

libpng12-0
libsdl-ttf2.0-0
libsdl-net1.2
wget

if you have apt installed you can use this command to install them:

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sudo apt-get install libpng12-0 libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libsdl-net1.2 wget

download the newest release of BS2 for windows and put the file http://siebn.de/download/BurningSand2 into the directoy and run it.

known limitations:
- no open/save dialogs

[JoeMaximum]

I want to give it a try on Damn Small Linux, i think if it work on this it should work on any. But im really not good at linux, i think i've enabled the apt-get thing, downloaded BurningSand2.exe, but cant execute it.

how do you normally execute something in linux?

[Sieben]

try setting the executable flag. open a console and change the directory to the BS2 directory and type:

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chmod 777 BurningSand2
./BurningSand2

[JoeMaximum]

The libsdl-ttf2.0-0 dont want to install itself:

Package libsdl-ttf2.0-0 has no installation candidate

All others seem to have installed correctly, i got an error when running ./BurningSand2, about the libsdl-ttf2.0-0 not found.

[Sieben]

enter

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apt-cache search sdl-ttf

this will show a list of availavle packets that contain sdl-ttf
for example

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libsdl-ttf1.2 - TrueType font library for Simple DirectMedia Layer
libsdl-ttf1.2-dev - development files for libsdl-ttf1.2
libsdl-ttf2.0-0 - ttf library for Simple DirectMedia Layer with FreeTy...
libsdl-ttf2.0-dev - development files for SDL ttf library (version 2.0)

the choose one and install it. for example

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apt-get install libsdl-ttf1.2

you don't need the -dev packages. these are development packages.

[inferno]

I should be able to help test it soon, Sieben. I 'm installing Xubuntu on an old (almost ancient) computer that's just sitting here doing nothing. Will try once I test out Linux for a while.

[JoeMaximum]

It may be me but anyway, here is the error i got:

./BurningSand2: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL_ttf-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

the 1.2 installed successfully though, gonna try restart the virtual machine and restart from the beginning only installing 1.2 version.
Edit: Tried this but without any more success !

[Sieben]

i also downloaded DSL. there's no sdl-ttf 2.0 in it's repository. if you try to use the ubuntu repository you'll get many version conflicts. i don't think there's an easy way to get BS2 to run on DSL. try a bigger distribution.

[JoeMaximum]

Im not that intersted in linux, i just wanted to test it with DSL to see if it could work on it. But this will most likely work on any normal distribution of linux, of course a 50 meg distribution wont allow everything, but it is seriously a Damn Good Distribution. There is probably a way but not an easy one like you said.

Someone else used to linux will surely make this work !

[drizzt]

It works perfectly for me. I am using Ubuntu 7.10 and it seems to have few if any bugs. Thanks for finally compiling it for Linux!

EDIT: SIEBEN YOU ARE AMAZING!!!