[SOLVED]Cannot Compile blobandconquer(game)

nlern · 2015-06-30 13:43:15

Hello everyone.

I want to play Blob Wars in my Arch PC. But the AUR package is Flagged out-of-date (2013-07-24) . So I downloaded the source from this site.

After extracting and issuing

$ make

I got following error:

/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libGL.so: undefined reference to symbol 'XGetVisualInfo'
/usr/lib/libX11.so.6: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
makefile:99: recipe for target 'blobAndConquer' failed
make: *** [blobAndConquer] Error 1

After that I searched web to solve this error and came across this post but could not well understood how to implement it in my case as I have nearly no knowledge regarding linking libraries. So if someone could help me solve this error by providing step-by-step instructions, it will be very helpful.

Last edited by nlern (2015-07-03 07:27:36)

Malkymder · 2015-06-30 14:29:48

First, Check if you have those dependencies (according to aur package, added lib32 equivalent just in case)...

pacman -S mesa sdl_image sdl_mixer sdl_ttf lib32-mesa lib32-sdl_image lib32-sdl_mixer lib32-sdl_ttf

nlern · 2015-06-30 15:22:12

@Malkymder, Yes I've all x64 dependencies although I have not installed 32 bits.

Last edited by nlern (2015-06-30 15:54:22)

nlern · 2015-07-02 09:03:55

I did a little advancement regarding this.

I added -lX11 to LIBS in makefile.

Now I get following error:

g++  -Wformat=2 -Wformat-security -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wmissing-noreturn -Wdisabled-optimization `sdl-config --cflags` -DVERSION=1.11 -DRELEASE=1 -DUSEPAK=0 -DDEV=0 -DPAKNAME=\"blobAndConquer.pak\" -DPAKLOCATION=\"/usr/share/games/blobAndConquer/\" -DGAMEPLAYMANUAL=\"/usr/share/doc/blobAndConquer//index.html\" -Wall -pedantic -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale/\" -g -c src/pak.cpp
src/pak.cpp: In function ‘void recurseDirectory(char*)’:
src/pak.cpp:128:16: error: cannot convert ‘FILE* {aka _IO_FILE*}’ to ‘gzFile {aka gzFile_s*}’ for argument ‘1’ to ‘int gzclose(gzFile)’
     gzclose(pak);
                ^
src/pak.cpp:160:16: error: cannot convert ‘FILE* {aka _IO_FILE*}’ to ‘gzFile {aka gzFile_s*}’ for argument ‘1’ to ‘int gzclose(gzFile)’
     gzclose(pak);
                ^
makefile:95: recipe for target 'pak.o' failed
make: *** [pak.o] Error 1

But interestingly I also get blobAndConquer named executible in the same directory and can play the game(with some black screns).

Can anyone help me solve this error?

Last edited by nlern (2015-07-02 09:04:49)

nlern · 2015-07-03 07:27:10

I cloned this git repository, then compiled the source and after successful compilation got 0.7 version binary of the game. It had textures unlike the previous (latest) one. So I copied the binary and texture files to latest ones directory and there the 0.7 binary ran successfully with sounds and textures. So my problem is solved!

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#1 2015-06-30 13:43:15

[SOLVED]Cannot Compile blobandconquer(game)

#2 2015-06-30 14:29:48

Re: [SOLVED]Cannot Compile blobandconquer(game)

#3 2015-06-30 15:22:12

Re: [SOLVED]Cannot Compile blobandconquer(game)

#4 2015-07-02 09:03:55

Re: [SOLVED]Cannot Compile blobandconquer(game)

#5 2015-07-03 07:27:10

Re: [SOLVED]Cannot Compile blobandconquer(game)

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