appimages that can't make them work

[Link4Electronics]

I tried to make hooks for them, tried many things in reality, some of them want to run form mountpoint, couldn't make them work.

https://github.com/Link4Electronics/KeeperFX-AppImage
this one if extracted works, there's some small caveats with it's launcher, and need to set INSTALL_PATH inside keeperfx.cfg somehow to make game work

https://github.com/Link4Electronics/Myth-II-AppImage
similar to keeperfx only works when extracted

https://github.com/pkgforge-dev/Rigs-of-Rods-AppImage
this one similar issue, has a path line inside plugins.cfg that need to set, if set accordenly with appimage extracted, game works (this one no need to have game assets)

https://github.com/pkgforge-dev/OpenTESArena-AppImage
similar issue to rigs of rods

https://github.com/Link4Electronics/Powermanga-AppImage
couldnt make it work either

https://github.com/Link4Electronics/GNU-Octave-AppImage
this one is almost working, but it's giving some errors message and it's not plotting graphs

https://github.com/pkgforge-dev/FEX-Emu-AppImage
issues when loading the x86_64 rootfs or any x86_64 binary

[Samueru-sama]

this one if extracted works, there's some small caveats with it's launcher, and need to set INSTALL_PATH inside keeperfx.cfg somehow to make game work

this one similar issue, has a path line inside plugins.cfg that need to set, if set accordenly with appimage extracted, game works (this one no need to have game assets)

Those are fixed if you apply a similar trick to what was done in kega-fusion

[Samueru-sama]

https://github.com/Link4Electronics/Rigs-of-Rods-AppImage

• /tmp/samuel/.mount_RoR-2remp7494446207640360854/bin/RoR: error while loading shared libraries: libXaw.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The pluguins.cfg looks like this:

# Defines plugins to load

# Define plugin folder
PluginFolder=lib

# Define plugins
Plugin=Codec_FreeImage
# Plugin=RenderSystem_Direct3D9
# Plugin=RenderSystem_Direct3D11
Plugin=RenderSystem_GL
# Plugin=RenderSystem_GL3Plus
Plugin=Plugin_ParticleFX
Plugin=Plugin_OctreeSceneManager
Plugin=Plugin_CgProgramManager
Plugin=libCaelum.so

I don't see hardcoded paths here?

[Link4Electronics]

I don't see hardcoded paths here?

on this one it's PluginFolder=lib, already tried put something like PluginFolder=$APPDIR/shared/lib or $APPDIR/lib and still doesn't work

and already had libxaw to pacman -Syu

[Samueru-sama]

on this one it's PluginFolder=lib, already tried put something like PluginFolder=$APPDIR/shared/lib or $APPDIR/lib and still doesn't work

and already had libxaw to pacman -Syu

Well, RoR has this shell script:

#!/bin/sh
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:./lib/
./RoR "$@"

that means you need to cd into the directory that has the binary to execute it. You know how to fix this 🤨

[Samueru-sama]

Do not edit PluginFolder= btw, the default value is relative to the working directory.

[Samueru-sama]

Also I wouldn't do this:

mv -v lib/* /usr/lib

Instead move the lib dir to ./AppDir/bin. Then you can deploy everything by passing quick-sharun ./AppDir/bin/*

The config file has to be ready before you run quick-sharun btw, this also means that you need to cd to ./AppDir/bin and run quick-sharun ./* instead, otherwise the binary will not open during deployment and stracemode will fail (causing missing libs).

[Link4Electronics]

You know how to fix this 🤨

Do I? bc otherwise wouldn't even be opening an issue in first place 🤣
I was skipping this script, and running the RoR binary directly to avoid this kind of issues with scripts

[Samueru-sama]

Do I? bc otherwise wouldn't even be opening an issue in first place 🤣 I was skipping this script, and running the RoR binary directly to avoid this kind of issues with scripts

Alright just made a PR fixing RoR. https://github.com/Link4Electronics/Rigs-of-Rods-AppImage/pull/1

There was a bug related to libXaw.so.7