UFO:Alien Invasion
Development => Newbie Coding => Topic started by: xcomfanatic20 on May 13, 2012, 09:41:30 am
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Hello Folks
Tried to download source using Git but for some reason, Git would not download to my Windoze 7 system.
Undaunted, I simply downloaded the source from the Downloads page (source and data versions 2.4).
After a lot of stuffing around, including using the codeblocks installable with MinGW configured (from codeblocks site) instead of the
version for UFO-AI, I was able to build the code. I noticed a couple of things.
- When I select BUILD->RUN from the menu in codeblocks, the program runs no problems.
- When I try to run the executable directly from the UFO-AI directory, I get the error:
"The program can't start because libjpeg-8.dll is missing from your computer...."
- I downloaded the full game installer as well and installed in a separate directory. This one runs fine. When I compared the sizes of the files, the one I built was around 11726k, while the file in from the game installer was 30,713k.
As I said earlier, the program runs fine from the development environment, but not when you run the executable directly. What am I missing here?
Thank you for your help and patience in advance.
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you are not linking statically - but dynamically. make sure to copy the contrib/dlls files from the git repo [1] to your game root dir:
[1] gitweb/contrib/dlls (http://ufoai.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=ufoai/ufoai;a=tree;f=contrib/dlls;h=7c0bbce4f4b5df2daca02f09ffdb26bd7c981ed1;hb=HEAD)
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Thanks. No more error messages. I knew it was something obvious.
Learning the quirks of codeblocks and the code structure as I go along.
Wish me luck. Great open sauce game.