TSC AppImage package for amd64/arm64/s390x about tsc HOT 9 OPEN

cegui refactored Editbox somewhen early 2022 and Debian 12 ships with a cegui git-version of 2022-06, which includes these changes, but the current Debian (11) TSC package is older and cannot have been built against those changes, effectively leading to a version incompatibility. Maybe (I did not check) all that is needed is a rebuild using current Debian12.

However, then I read in INSTALL.md:

TSC needs CEGUI version 0.7.x.

while the debian package has as dependency:

libcegui-mk2-0.8.7

So I am unsure what is true.

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@knarrff

For Debian 12, try does this work. I did build it at 2023-07-17. I did not yet have time to add it to TSC website.

https://ftp.secretchronicles.org/releases/TSC-2.1.0-bookworm-amd64.deb

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For any others, that are not yet at website, those are also here:

https://ftp.secretchronicles.org/releases/

I try to build packages for newer distros, when I have some time.

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@knarrff

For Debian 12, try does this work. I did build it at 2023-07-17. I did not yet have time to add it to TSC website.

https://ftp.secretchronicles.org/releases/TSC-2.1.0-bookworm-amd64.deb

Unfortunately, no. Starting the game and opening the options menu leads still to:

$ tsc
No joysticks available
CEGUI::InvalidRequestException in function 'void CEGUI::Editbox::setValidationString(const CEGUI::String&)' (./cegui/src/widgets/Editbox.cpp:161) : Unable to set validation string on Editbox 'game_spinner_camera_hor_speed/__auto_editbox__' because it does not currently have a RegexMatcher validator.
Uncought exception. You might want to file a bug; see <https://secretchronicles.org/>.
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'CEGUI::InvalidRequestException'
  what():  CEGUI::InvalidRequestException in function 'void CEGUI::Editbox::setValidationString(const CEGUI::String&)' (./cegui/src/widgets/Editbox.cpp:161) : Unable to set validation string on Editbox 'game_spinner_camera_hor_speed/__auto_editbox__' because it does not currently have a RegexMatcher validator.
Aborted

I think the reason is that the version of cegui in Debian is too old, despite the package name. See also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1038463

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@knarrff

I think solution to this is for me to try to create AppImage, that works at most distros.

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Maybe. On the other hand,

@knarrff
I think solution to this is for me to try to create AppImage, that works at most distros.

Honestly: as a Debian user I would have much preferred a native Debian package, as in: TSC being shipped officially with Debian. I find AppImages (or any of such solutions) rather inelegant, but have to confess that they have their benefits.

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@knarrff

It is a lot of work to create separate .deb package for every release of every distro, as can be seen in amount of different .deb packages here:

https://secretchronicles.org/en/download/

And some dependencies are not available at some distros.

I do not know how to get some package shipped officially with Debian, or with any other distro.

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Is it possible to create a flatpak?

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@nattkorp

Depends does someone help with creating flatpak, there is incomplete PR at #675

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