[Build Issue]:

[jONALDjONALD]

Have you read through the build instructions before reading this?

• [X] I have read the build instructions

What operating system are you seeing the problem on?

Linux (any distro)

Describe the build issue

when attempting to run make from master or develop my terminal outputs error 1&2 on LMDE 5.

Relevant log output

jonald@big:~/etterna-master/build$ make
[  0%] Performing gn_configure step for 'crashpad_init'
Done. Made 76 targets from 27 files in 4ms
ninja: Entering directory `/home/jonald/etterna-master/build/gn_crashpad'
[15/207] ACTION //third_party/mini_chr...omium/build/config:gcc_like_toolchain)
FAILED: gen/build/chromeos_buildflags.h 
python ../../extern/crashpad/crashpad/third_party/mini_chromium/mini_chromium/build/write_buildflag_header.py --output build/chromeos_buildflags.h --rulename //third_party/mini_chromium/mini_chromium/build:chromeos_buildflags --gen-dir gen --definitions gen/build/chromeos_buildflags.h.flags
/bin/sh: 1: python: not found
[24/207] CXX obj/third_party/mini_chro...synchronization/base.lock_impl_posix.o
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
make[2]: *** [extern/crashpad/CMakeFiles/crashpad_init.dir/build.make:105: gn_crashpad/src/crashpad_init-stamp/crashpad_init-gn_configure] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:1847: extern/crashpad/CMakeFiles/crashpad_init.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:156: all] Error 2

Anything else?

No response

[poco0317]

missing python 2 installation

[jONALDjONALD]

how odd, terminal outputs I have python 2

[jameskr97]

Could you please post your output for:

$ which python
$ python -v

Thank you

[jONALDjONALD]

jonald@big:~$ python -v Command 'python' not found, did you mean: command 'python3' from deb python3 command 'python' from deb python-is-python3

These are the exact outputs so I decided to install from the package manager to show terminal outputs what is assumed to be installed. When I attempt to install python2 The output is thus: jonald@big:~$ sudo apt install python2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done python2 is already the newest version (2.7.18-3). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. and the same is with Python3 with version 3.9.2-3 if that is any help as well.

[poco0317]

the point of which python was to see what python points to. depot_tools is going to be looking for that to be pointing at your python2 install

[jONALDjONALD]

apologies, that seems to output nothing for me so I omitted it. but none the less here is what was in my terminal.

jonald@big:~$ which python
jonald@big:~$ 

[poco0317]

i would also like to mention that there is a way to build without needing depot_tools and there is also a binary available for this game in the latest releases. since you are building master i assume you arent making changes to submit.

to build without depot_tools (without crashpad ... no crash dumps will be generated by the game. although we will never be able to use them because you are building the game yourself) https://github.com/etternagame/etterna/blob/master/Docs/Building.md#sample-cmake-commands example: cmake -DWITH_CRASHPAD=OFF -G "Unix Makefiles" ..

or you can avoid needing to build by using the release binaries https://github.com/etternagame/etterna/releases/download/v0.71.2/Etterna-0.71.2-Linux.tar.gz

[jONALDjONALD]

I have a successful build...somehow! My Terminal commands are as follows using Ninja and the added cmake argument!

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/etternagame/etterna.git
cd etterna
git submodule update --init
mkdir Build
cd Build
cmake .. -DWITH_CRASHPAD=OFF -G 'Ninja'
ninja

That worked! Now another issue has arisen... It will not run as Linux detects no known programs to run the Etterna file with it. Once again I apologize for this, I feel as though I am coming off as an idiot Linux user asking for your help with all this.

[poco0317]

once you built the etterna executable (which may be named etterna or Etterna in the main folder of the game) you should just be able to run it from terminal with ./etterna or ./Etterna depending on its exact name

you probably may also have to set chmod 755 or whatever

[jONALDjONALD]

success! Thank you so much for your help!