Re: [pygame] Distributing a Pygame game on Linux

[Russell Jones <russell.jones@xxxxxxxxx>]

You may need to use ldd on the libraries you find by running ldd on the binary.

Russell

On 14 May 2013 14:39, Kevin Locoh <rayman3640@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Many thanks for the feedback, I'll make a new build including the missing
> library soon, probably tomorrow. There are quite probably a few other
> missing libraries, so I'll use the ldd command on the binary file to include
> them all.
>
> Kevin
>
> Le mardi 14 mai 2013 02:09:18 UTC+2, Bartosz Debski a Ãcrit :
>>
>> No dice on Slackware 14.0 64bit with 32bit env installed as well:
>>
>> ~/Downloads/A Scholar In The Woods - Post Compo - Linux$ ./play
>> ./play: /lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0: no version information available
>> (required by /home/braqoon/Downloads/A Scholar In The Woods - Post Compo -
>> Linux/libpython3.2mu.so.1.0)
>> ./play: /lib/libssl.so.1.0.0: no version information available (required
>> by /home/braqoon/Downloads/A Scholar In The Woods - Post Compo -
>> Linux/libpython3.2mu.so.1.0)
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File
>> "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/cx_Freeze/initscripts/Console3.py",
>> line 27, in <module>
>> File "play.py", line 6, in <module>
>> File "/home/ubuntu/TÃlÃchargements/Post Compo/Windows
>> build/constantes.py", line 3, in <module>
>> File
>> "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/pygame-1.9.2pre-py3.2-linux-i686.egg/pygame/__init__.py",
>> line 99, in <module>
>> File "ExtensionLoader_pygame_base.py", line 11, in <module>
>> ImportError: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file
>> or directory
>>
>> I got no pygame or ptyhon 3.x on 32bit, so I guess this can be treated as
>> "vanilla" environment.
>>
>> Hope it helps
>> Bart
>>
>> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Thomas Kluyver <tak...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Seems to be working here, though I'm also using Ubuntu, so that's not
>>> such a challenge.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Thomas
>>>
>>>
>>> On 13 May 2013 23:49, Kevin Locoh <rayma...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the tip, I've looked into the doc and made a few searchs, and
>>>> in the end I've managed to include all dependencies using the
>>>> "bin_path_includes" property (I set the value to "/usr/lib").
>>>> "include_files" seems to be rather dedicated to data files (e.g mostly the
>>>> images, sounds and fonts used in the game). Anybody would mind trying my
>>>> Linux build (a Post Compo release of my Ludum Dare entry)?
>>>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8347940/A%20Scholar%20In%20The%20Woods%20-%20Post%20Compo%20-%20Linux.tar.gz
>>>>
>>>> Thanks again in anycase, it was really helpful!
>>>>
>>>> Le lundi 13 mai 2013 11:02:51 UTC+2, Thomas Kluyver a Ãcrit :
>>>>>
>>>>> On 13 May 2013 00:32, Kevin Locoh <rayma...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oh sorry, I'd completely missed your message. Actually, it works on my
>>>>>> computer with Ubuntu, but I had understood that cx_Freeze doesn't include
>>>>>> every C extension library, in my case the SDL, which makes the tarball quite
>>>>>> dependent of the distro: the game frozen with cx_Freeze would probably crash
>>>>>> with a "module not found" message on another platform. Am I mistaken
>>>>>> anywhere? I somehow hope so, it'd much easier for me to keep cx_Freeze which
>>>>>> already works with Python 3.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It's supposed to include all the libraries that the program needs to
>>>>> run, but not standard system libraries like libc. It might not be detecting
>>>>> SDL as a dependency, or it might be misclassifying it as a system library.
>>>>> Either way, you can force it to include a library with the include_files
>>>>> option (see docs at [1]).
>>>>>
>>>>> If there's a simple way to get it working, you can contribute a hook
>>>>> for pygame to include files that the automatic detection misses.
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] http://cx_freeze.readthedocs.org/en/latest/distutils.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Best wishes,
>>>>> Thomas
>>>
>>>
>>
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