Build instructions suggestions

[hatoving]

I know this is kind of a noob question, but how do I build the game? I know that it uses Haxe, but I seriously didn't learn the language. Am I supposed to downkload a Haxe engine and then build it that way? I tried out the .bat files in the art folder but nohing really happened.

Can someone help me lol

Take care and best regards hat

[Polytelus]

Not a moderator but, as the girlfriend would say, "here's how you do it":

• Download Haxe and install it according to your operating system: https://haxe.org/download/

• Run the following commands on a terminal or command prompt: haxelib install lime haxelib run lime setup

• If it doesn't for you, install the tools as well: haxelib install lime-tools

Run the batch file that you want (except the switch one) on the art folder and then compile!

[hatoving]

Not a moderator but, as the girlfriend would say, "here's how you do it":

• Download Haxe and install it according to your operating system: https://haxe.org/download/
• Run the following commands on a terminal or command prompt: haxelib install lime haxelib run lime setup
• If it doesn't for you, install the tools as well: haxelib install lime-tools

Run the batch file that you want (except the switch one) on the art folder and then compile!

It almost worked, it threw an error at me saying: "Error: Could not find haxelib "newgrounds", does it need to be installed?" And it couldn't find "butler". So yeah

[Polytelus]

Ah yes, I forgot. You need to also do haxelib install newgrounds. For butler, just ignore it, as it's supposed to push a commit to github.

[hatoving]

Ah yes, I forgot. You need to also do haxelib install newgrounds. For butler, just ignore it, as it's supposed to push a commit to github.

epic gamer moment i think

It threw this at me: "Missing HXCPP_VARS Error: Could not automatically setup MSVC"

Just a reminder; I do have Haxe installed, WITH HaxeFlixel, I know the game is run by it.

[ninjamuffin99]

For butler, just ignore it, as it's supposed to push a commit to github. Butler is for the Itch.io uploads, it's their commandline tool for uploading. No one should need it hehe https://itch.io/docs/butler/

[ninjamuffin99]

It threw this at me: "Missing HXCPP_VARS Error: Could not automatically setup MSVC"

Just a reminder; I do have Haxe installed, WITH HaxeFlixel, I know the game is run by it.

For this you need to install Visual Studio community or something like that. And make sure you install the 'build tools' its a bit strange. I'll have to write a more comprehensive guide to compiling the game at some point

[sqirradotdev]

One thing to add, you probably need to comment newgrounds API thingy in TitleState.hx, as it contains newgrounds API stuffs. The compiler would scream "APIStuff.hx not found" or something like that. I think it's in the .gitignore for a reason lol

[Enovale]

Also if you build on linux make sure to install the latest source from their github, my solution is in that linked issue #74

[Mia-Rain]

If no one else is doing it already, then I'll make a PR to make it more clear in the README.

[ninjamuffin99]

alright I have a quick and dirty build guide in the readme with commit 7d2be49

I'll use this issue as a suggestions page on how to improve it!

[Mia-Rain]

@ninjamuffin99, linux pulls some extra libs from haxelib, as well as a basic requirement for g++, below commands need to be run as well; Some indication of them should be added to the README

haxelib run lime setup
haxelib install fixel-addons
haxelib install fixel
haxelib install openfl

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below changes based on Linux distro Ubuntu:

# apt install g++

Arch Linux

# pacman -Sy gcc

ppl on other distros likely know what there doing and can debug the issue themselves

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Also pertaining to #74, the master repo didn't work for me, and using master is a well know bad idea all around, using 1.1.1 fixed my issue, I recommend using it.

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To wrap up; Using the master branch is a bad idea, 1.1.1 works well without issue for Geokureli/Newgrounds, but 1.1.3 might also work, idk.. Below can be used to install 1.1.1 on linux

wget -O newgrounds.zip https://codeload.github.com/Geokureli/Newgrounds/zip/1.1.1
haxelib install newgrounds.zip

Below additional libs are also needed, at least on linux... Maybe else where, IDK :shrug:

haxel run lime setup
haxelib install fixel-addons
haxelib install fixel
haxelib install openfl

Below is needed only for linux Ubuntu:

# apt install g++

Arch Linux

# pacman -Sy gcc

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Building is done like so;

lime build linux -release

Note: Running the game requires being in the export/release/linux/bin/ folder since the binary isn't statically compiled. Note: # are for linux users, it indicates root access is needed

[Mia-Rain]

It would also be good if someone could put together proper instructions for Windows and MacOS, I only use Linux tho, so I've given all I can, gl, and thx, also the game is great! :)

[ninjamuffin99]

Now that I think about it, might be cleaner to have it in the wiki pages of Github, allows other people to edit and modify and all that, and stays out of the way of the README (although will still have links to it in there!)

[Mia-Rain]

not a bad idea tbh

[hatoving]

Hi, sorry for not answering for so long! Inhave built the game, it works as expected. Thanks! Should I close this off now?

Take care -hat

[kinger956]

Greetingsto all i have an issue that when i type haxelib install newgrounds in cmdtheysay error: failed with error: blocking Pls help me