Post by Liam O'Connor in Micro Entertainment: Gatchi comments

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Honestly, I can't really support Linux binaries anymore. Although, it should be easy enough to compile the games yourself for Linux. All you need is a Rust compiler and cargo, and SDL.

https://github.com/liamoc/desktop_games

Don't use the Makefiles, they're for publishing to Itch. Looking at the Ubuntu packages for example, I think you'll need to run something like:

sudo apt install rustc cargo libsdl2 libsdl2-dev

Then just run

cargo run --release gatchi

from the directory where you cloned the above repository.

Shnicl1 year ago

Thanks! It looks like I'm getting close. I'm pretty sure I needed to run

sudo cargo new gatchi --bin

before running

cargo run --release gatchi

and I needed to have its directory name in "snake-case".

I got

Compiling gatchi-same v0.1.0 (/[dir]/gatchi-same)

Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 0.28s

Running `target/release/gatchi-same gatchi`
Hello, world!

But I'm not playing yet

Liam O'Connor1 year ago

Hi, it looks like you instead created a new Rust project called gatchi and built that. Try running this exact series of commands:

git clone https://github.com/liamoc/desktop_games.git
cd desktop_games
cargo run --release gatchi

Shnicl1 year ago

I get

error: failed to read `/[dir]/littlewing/Cargo.toml`

Caused by:

No such file or directory (os error 2)

It's similar to the problem I was encountering before - the lack of a cargo.toml file that led me to the "sudo cargo new gatchi --bin" command I tried above.

I tried copying the Cargo.toml file from desktop_games into gatchi but that didn't seem to help.

Liam O'Connor1 year ago

Ah, it's trying to build the chess game for some reason.

Try just going

git clone https://github.com/liamoc/desktop_games.git
cd desktop_games
cd gatchi
cargo run --release

Shnicl1 year ago

Nope, same error

itch.io

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