Downloaded Platinum Arts Sandbox 2.1 beta multiplatform version.

On Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) I had problems running it out of the box.
After I fixed the permissions I got this error message.


./bin_unix/native_client 
./bin_unix/native_client: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL_image-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


So I checked to see what it was linked againt.

ldd bin_unix/native_client 
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libSDL-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libSDL-1.2.so.0 (0xf7e44000)
        libSDL_image-1.2.so.0 => not found
        libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0 (0xf7dd5000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libz.so.1 (0xf7dc0000)
        libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1 (0xf7d2a000)
        libGLU.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libGLU.so.1 (0xf7ca7000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf7bb4000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf7b8f000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf7b83000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf7a39000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libX11.so.6 (0xf7948000)
        libasound.so.2 => /usr/lib32/libasound.so.2 (0xf7882000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf787e000)
        libdirectfb-0.9.so.25 => /usr/lib32/libdirectfb-0.9.so.25 (0xf7827000)
        libfusion-0.9.so.25 => /usr/lib32/libfusion-0.9.so.25 (0xf7820000)
        libdirect-0.9.so.25 => /usr/lib32/libdirect-0.9.so.25 (0xf7811000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf77f9000)
        libvorbisfile.so.3 => not found
        libvorbis.so.0 => not found
        libogg.so.0 => not found
        libsmpeg-0.4.so.0 => not found
        libGLcore.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libGLcore.so.1 (0xf6e60000)
        libnvidia-tls.so.1 => /usr/lib32/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.1 (0xf6e5e000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXext.so.6 (0xf6e50000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7ee5000)
        libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXau.so.6 (0xf6e4c000)
        libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xf6e47000)



In the end I recompiled it.

I had to install several SDL libraries to get it to build.

libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2dev

Installation of these also installed the following packages on my computer

libjpeg62-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libtiff4-dev libtiffxx0c2

libogg-dev libsdl-mixer1.2 libsmpeg-dev libsmpeg0 libvorbis-dev

I installed g++ also to get it to compile.

I had to also change permissions on Sandbox2.1/src/enet/configure to make it executable.

LATER that same day....

I unzipped the 2.1 beta again, to see if, now that the libraries are definitely installed since building myself works fine.

dave@escher:~/software/Sandbox2.1$ ./bin_unix/native_client -t
bash: ./bin_unix/native_client: Permission denied
dave@escher:~/software/Sandbox2.1$ ./sandbox_unix
bash: ./sandbox_unix: Permission denied
dave@escher:~/software/Sandbox2.1$ chmod +x sandbox_
sandbox_kart_unix  sandbox_unix       
dave@escher:~/software/Sandbox2.1$ chmod +x sandbox_unix 
dave@escher:~/software/Sandbox2.1$ ./sandbox_unix
./bin_unix/native_client: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL_image-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
dave@escher:~/software/Sandbox2.1$ chmod -R +x bin_unix
dave@escher:~/software/Sandbox2.1$ ./bin_unix/native_client -t
./bin_unix/native_client: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL_image-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I looked on http://www.kids.platinumarts.net/wiki/index.php?title=Bug_reports
and it says sandbox_unix will fix permissions, but it did not work for me. It also says bin_unix/native_client will run without changing permissions, but I did not see that either.

NOTE: This is on AMD64 Ubuntu 7.10 now that I think of it, so most likely explanation is that the binaries are 32 bit.

Suspicion confirmed:
(07:47:39 PM) eihrul: the binaries are 32 bit

It works fine if I compile myself.

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