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PugByte4 years ago

Instead of creating symbolic links, you can set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable just before executing the runner. The variable's lifetime is that of the terminal it was set in.

For example, on Ubuntu you could reference the Steam libraries and run the game like so:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/.steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/lib/i386-linux-gnu/
./runner

It would be great if the itch desktop app had a way to launch games with user defined options and environment variables. At least, I don't see a way to do it.

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[bucket drum games]4 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

As a workaround, you can launch the game from the itch app by replacing the runner with a bash script that runs the actual runner prefaced with the environment variable.

Rename the actual runner to something else:

mv ~/.config/itch/apps/bitrat/bit_rat_singularity/runner ~/.config/itch/apps/bitrat/bit_rat_singularity/runner.bin

Create a script at ~/.config/itch/apps/bitrat/bit_rat_singularity/runner that runs the renamed runner prefaced with the environment variable:

#!/bin/bash
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/.steam/bin32/steam-runtime/lib/i386-linux-gnu ~/.config/itch/apps/bitrat/bit_rat_singularity/runner.bin

Make the script executable:

chmod +x ~/.config/itch/apps/bitrat/bit_rat_singularity/runner

Launching the game from the itch app will now use the environment variable.

-nick / [bucket drum games]

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