Wesnoth with --tinygui?

DarkAmex · Post by **DarkAmex** » August 29th, 2006, 2:29 am

How I can compile Wesnoth for a portable device? I tried to compile it on my slackware with --tinyguy argument but there are many problem with pngmeta program that isn't compatible with new version of libpng.so.3.

now I receive this error:

pngmeta: relocation error: pngmeta: symbol png_read_destroy, version PNG12_0 not defined in file libpng12.so.0 with link time reference

What shuld I do? I think that the problem is in resizing of the image but I'm not sure...

Website · Post by **Sapient** » August 29th, 2006, 4:14 am

which version of wesnoth are you trying to compile with tinygui? Currently, grzywacz is working on tinygui support.

DarkAmex · Post by **DarkAmex** » August 29th, 2006, 7:03 am

I'm trying to compile the last SVN version (when I compile the game, and I try to launch the application, the game starts with resized fonts, buttons and exagons, but all other images remains big).

The automatic resizing of images doesn't work on my Slackware. I think that is for pngmeta.

User:Grzywacz Wiki Site · Post by **grzywacz** » August 29th, 2006, 9:28 am

As for the purpose of the pngmeta itself - it's used to get image information prior to resizing, which is required to make tiny gui work. If it doesn't work for you, then the installation should fail.

It looks like a problem with your particular system. Either get packages linked against proper library versions, or try to compile the tool from source. I have no problems with it on my Debian system.

If you can't get it working in a reasonable amount of time I might be able to tar the resized images and upload them somewhere.

DarkAmex · Post by **DarkAmex** » August 29th, 2006, 11:49 am

Can you tell me the version of yours libpng and pngmeta?

Post by **ivanovic** » August 29th, 2006, 12:37 pm

I did just try to download the sources of pngmeta to compile it myself:
The tarball is from 2001 and compiling it is broken.
Afterwads I did try to apply the debianpatch on it. Compiling was still broken for me.

I would recommand to switch to another tool to do the resize stuff. Maybe imagemagic can be used? This is a tool that is well maintained and should work nicely. And the dependencies of Wesnoth (on the wiki page) should be update to show that you need some more stuff when using the configure flag --enable-tinygui.
Btw, i am using a gentoo linux and there is no package for pngmeta included in it.

DarkAmex · Post by **DarkAmex** » August 29th, 2006, 1:07 pm

I'm agree with Ivanovich, pngmeta isn't well mantained at the moment...

User:Grzywacz Wiki Site · Post by **grzywacz** » August 29th, 2006, 3:21 pm

I'll take a look at this problem later today, thanks for the information. pngmeta worked for me with no problems, so I kind of assumed that it should also do so for others.

Anyway, tiny gui is still buggy in many places.

User:Grzywacz Wiki Site · Post by **grzywacz** » August 29th, 2006, 10:31 pm

I've just commited a fix (I hope so) to trunk, which removes the dependency on pngmeta in favour of ImageMagick's "identify". Please test, as I'm going to sleep now.

DarkAmex · Post by **DarkAmex** » August 29th, 2006, 11:30 pm

I'm downloading the SVN version of the game... I'm sure that it will work!

DarkAmex · Post by **DarkAmex** » August 30th, 2006, 12:41 am

It Works!!! Thanks!

(there is another little problem: during the tutorial the istruction for the player are very big and goes over the end of the screen, I think that They aren't resized during the installation process)

User:Grzywacz Wiki Site · Post by **grzywacz** » August 30th, 2006, 5:14 am

I know that. The font size is hardcoded into the tutorial .cfg files and I haven't found a way around this yet.

DarkAmex · Post by **DarkAmex** » August 30th, 2006, 6:13 am

in WML there isn't a way to capture the sceen size of the user?

DarkAmex · Post by **DarkAmex** » August 30th, 2006, 7:52 am

could be an idea to insert a second tutorial.cfg for portable device installed with --enable-tinygui option? (I don't know if it's possible...)

User:Grzywacz Wiki Site · Post by **grzywacz** » August 30th, 2006, 8:19 am

Of course it is possible, but I think it doesn't make sense to double the amount of wml to maitain only to get it working like that.