sacred roost
Hello. I am running NixOS (Linux) and I am getting an error with the AppImage. I believe the AppImage format is supposed to fix this problem by bundling all the dependencies in an OS-independent way so it can be run anywhere.
This is my fix:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/nix/store/0sf9hhwd7ny2yfbrwx506bggd33bma2r-openal-soft-1.22.2/lib"
appimage-run Beyond-All-Reason-1.2124.0.AppImage
Should I create a (github?) ticket for this?
remote lake
Have a read through this thread and see if anything helps https://discord.com/channels/549281623154229250/1090638474845106299
sacred roost
Well, I have a fix and I see another fix at the end of that thread but the problem indicates a missing library. Are you sure that openal is bundled inside the AppImage?
remote lake
I'm not sure, it's possible that system is expected to provide OpenAL
It looks like it should be available in your package manager https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/development/libraries/openal-soft
vapid sandal
Well, I have a fix and I see another fix at the end of that thread but the probl...
It's not, SDL2 and OpenAL are not currently bundled in the AppImage, they are being linked in from the base system.
Linking those dependencies in the engine was tried, but it ended up being a lot of complexity, so we are not there yet
For fully self contained install, there is flatpak package
That leverages the freedesktop runtime that have also all those in
sacred roost
I see. I installed openal in nixos but that didn't fix it. I had to add the LD_LIBRARY_PATH thing to make it work.
okay
vapid sandal
I see. I installed `openal` in nixos but that didn't fix it. I had to add the `L...
I'm not very familiar with nixos, but AFAIK it's not following the FHS so it's expected that linking with the software not build for nixos might have linking issues like this..
(or there might be something else at play that I'm just not familiar with)
sacred roost
I can look into creating a derivation (software package) for nixos to include in the official repositories if I get it running.
I could use https://ryantm.github.io/nixpkgs/builders/images/appimagetools/ or preferrably just build it from source. I'm new-ish with nixos but I will put it on my todo list 🙂
vapid sandal
I can look into creating a derivation (software package) for nixos to include in...
What is being packaged by the appimage is actually only the launcher, and then engine is installed dynamicaly. And the launcher is build using electron, we use electron-builder to build the appimage, but e.g. for the flatpak, we build it directly, you can take a look here: https://github.com/flathub/info.beyondallreason.bar