I just purchased the last HIB just for this game and it didn’t start. I get that error message :
libpng-1.2 is deprecated and mostly replaced by libpng 1.4 or 1.5.
Some distribution don’t include old libs as everything is compiled with decents lib version.
You have 4 way to fix this!
1 - Recompile but with static linking
2 - Include the lib (and all dependency) with the game
3 - Update to libpng-1.4 and recompile (people with old libpng-1.2 will not be able to play)
4 - Release the source so I can fix it myself.
I get the same error. I’m running ArchLinux 64 bit if it matters but I think we all know whats going on here anyway
This isn’t actually a huge issue – the game already includes a few libraries just needs to have this one extra added in. Not sure what distro still ships with libpng-1.2 but its worth noting that this was a problem in the first place.
But man, please don’t pester the developer for the source – it makes linux users look bad. Its his code he can do what he likes with it – I’m just happy to have some good linux games.
You can download libpng-1.2 from sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/ … 12/1.2.46/ and the usual ./configure make make install works fine. It has a “make uninstall” to remove the fix when the dev corrects this.
My distro has a package for libjpeg6 – and that fixed it. Again not sure if this would be an issue with the popular ubuntu based distros. This doesn’t get me going yet since I get a could not set video mode error still…
OK. Here is the fix for the video error Open up “~/.positech/GSB/prefs.ini” – look at the video width and height options – thats the problem. For me it was set to a mode that wasn’t really available, probably because of my dual monitor setup. I changed it to width = 1920 and height was already set at 1080 – and now the game runs!
If anyone needs and help with this I’ll stick around for a bit.
OK everybody… There is a new binary I just submitted that fixes a number of issues affecting 32bit builds and some newer distributions. It should hopefully be updated sometimes soon on the HIB site.
(and thanks for pointing out this issues… It ONLY affected the 32bit builds for some reason… the game was linked to libpng-1.2 and the SDL_image library was loading libpng-3… Causing lots of BADNESS)
