Error on fresh install possibly causing Leadwerks 4.5/4.6 to fail

[egildon]

Hello all,

I am getting an error on a fresh install of my Leadwerks 4.5 professional install on Ubuntu 18.10.

Error: Failed to load font "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/Ubuntu-L.ttf"

I went looking for the font and found it at: "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu/Ubuntu-L.ttf"

Could this error be causing my instance to not Run or Debug? The application launches just fine but will not begin a Run or Debug Cycle.

How can I fix this error?

Best,

 

e

 

 

[carlb]

well path been different not going to help.

not sure were in the linux leadwerks you change setting but i would make the directory and move the file or do symbolic link to the directory that should fix it

 

[egildon]

Thanks for responding!

How should I do that if it is a steam install? I cant rebuild or remake as though it were using a makefile to install LE. Hummm...

 

[carlb]

that font path is nothing to do with steam that ubuntu changed path with different os version

as you wanting this path /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/Ubuntu-L.ttf

but you found in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu/Ubuntu-L.ttf

so do the following 

cd /usr/shar/fonts/truetype/

ln -s ./ubuntu ./ubuntu-font-family

 

then you have how the missing ubuntu-font-family and it point to ubuntu directory were the files are

hope that helps you 

 

 

 

[egildon]

Thank you!

Actually I fixed the error by creating the directory and copying  the single missing file over to it. (I completely forgot about the ability to do Sym Links)

I'll be implementing your suggestion as well!

After all of that there is still no response when I press run or debug.

Are there any error log files I can check?

[carlb]

sorry someone else have to help you i don't have it on any of my linux machine

only on windows

[egildon]

5 minutes ago, carlb said:

sorry someone else have to help you i don't have it on any of my linux machine

only on windows

Thank you so much for your help!

[egildon]

3 hours ago, carlb said:

sorry someone else have to help you i don't have it on any of my linux machine

only on windows

Ok, So I was able to figure out what was going on.

In my case  had a change in the placement of a True Type Font which fixed by using to create new Symbolic Links;

cd /usr/shar/fonts/truetype/
sudo ln -s ./ubuntu ./ubuntu-font-family 

(Thank you user Carlb)

 

I was missing some other libraries which were referenced in Josh's post:

sudo apt-get install libglu1-mesa-dev
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libxft-dev

(Thank you Admin Josh)

 

I was missing an additional library for the AL sound library:

sudo apt-get install libalut-dev

(Thank you ME! ?)

 

After making all of these changes LE would compile cleanly (with CodeBlocks) but I would still fail with warnings.

||=== Build failed: 1 error(s), 26 warning(s) (0 minute(s), 5 second(s)) ===|

 

This problem is found here.

And is solved by adding the

-no-pie

flag into the compiler you are using which iirc stands for Position Independent Executable.

HTH

 

Best!