Tool Only Runs on Windows (not Linux or macOS)

[wherron01]

As this is all Python, could it be made cross-platform and a Linux build shipped? I'd really like to use this mod tool, but I don't have a Windows install.

[morceaudebois]

Same for Mac.

[notoriousjere]

given you have python 3.11 and all of the packages used in the project, you could just run python3 GUI.py on either of those platforms and it should work

[wherron01]

This fails with the following error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/totk-aar/script.py", line 21, in <module>
    file_names = os.listdir(blyt_folder)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/user/totk-aar/AAR MOD/temp/Common.Product.110.Nin_NX_NVN/blyt'
Exception in thread Thread-4 (create_full):
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/threading.py", line 1038, in _bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/threading.py", line 975, in run
    self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
  File "/home/willow/totk-aar/GUI.py", line 168, in create_full
    os.remove(blarc_file_path)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/user/totk-aar/AAR MOD/temp/Common.Product.110.Nin_NX_NVN.blarc'

[wherron01]

I traced the issue back to the zstandard python package. The one packaged with the mod tool does not work, and I already had the zstandard package on my install, but it defaulted to the one packaged. Renaming it to zstandard-backup let the tool use my system package, which worked.

[notoriousjere]

There should really be a version of this project that uses poetry to manage a virtual environment that grabs the necessary dependencies instead of including them in the repo

[fayaz12g]

Currently when I use it on mac i use parallels, I know this is not preferred than running natively, especially as it is a UNIX based OS with Python already installed. I will likely release an appimage eventually that does the same thing, but works on macOS/steamOS/Linux. Unsure why the zstandard dependencies packed in are only working on windows.

[wherron01]

Just for the record, I later discovered that the generated mod wasn’t working, despite the tool not throwing any errors, and that this was because the same thing was happening with the keystone package as was with the zstandard package.

[fayaz12g]

I appreciate you updating me with that. It seems this tool does not like to work with any operating system other than windows at the moment. I'll work to fix it as a stretch goal

[dcbishop]

It works using Wine

[Samueru-sama]

It works using Wine

How do you use this with wine? The program opens and I can input the parameters, but when I hit generate nothing happens.

[fayaz12g]

@Samueru-sama Did you specify the output folder to where you want it to go?