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How to get the latest build of TuxType? #27

Open Zhuravl opened 1 year ago

Zhuravl commented 1 year ago

I was not able to build the game by myself and find a ton of outdated builds on the Internet, so decided to ask the next questions (to potentially extend the documentation with this information):

  1. What is the current procedure for building and publishing the new versions of the application?
  2. How initiate re-building with the latest code?
  3. Where the latest builds are published for downloading by the target users?
Zhuravl commented 1 year ago

Hey @perepujal! I can see you have managed the last PRs in this repository, so maybe you can answer these questions and will help me to publish the latest version of the application?

perepujal commented 1 year ago

Hi Illia, I don't know the responses to your questions :( I ususally play with TuxPaint, and only occasionally with translations in the other tux4kids projects.

What I can say is, to compile TuxType you need first https://github.com/tux4kids/t4kcommon, and only when it is in place you will be able to compile TuxType. After a long time without touching tuxtype, I could not compile it in my box anymore, not even t4kcommon. Just today I found https://github.com/tux4kids/t4kcommon/pull/10 that makes t4kcommon compile on newer systems, but still can't compile tuxtype so I can't be of much help currently :(

Pere

Zhuravl commented 1 year ago

Got it! Thank you for sharing this information, Pere!

I'll try to ask for the help of the community...

Cheezmeister commented 1 year ago

Thanks @Zhuravl

As you can see, both projects are not under active maintenance, so I'm not sure that there is a definite answer to your questions. They've undergone some bit-rot over the years, and will need some research to bring them back.

You may want to connect with Twan Chen, who was trying to make a successful build under Arch Linux: https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/tux4kids-tuxtype-dev/2023-March/001402.html

It would help if you share here your OS/platform, the steps you took in trying to build, and what error message(s) you received.

If you're able to get a working build, share the fix and/or update documentation, it would surely be appreciated!