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CurlyMo

22nd Jan, 2015, 07:19 AM
What were the exact libraries you had issues with on elementaryos?
Can you guys check how cross-platform this compiled version behaves: http://xbian.org/XBian-installer.zip

calhaus

22nd Jan, 2015, 10:17 AM
(22nd Jan, 2015 07:19 AM)CurlyMo Wrote: [ -> ]What were the exact libraries you had issues with on elementaryos?
Can you guys check how cross-platform this compiled version behaves: http://xbian.org/XBian-installer.zip

In elementaryOS still does not work because it needs "ZLIB" and "GLIBC", but are the only one needed this time.
(I feel like this distro don't include a single lib! Confused )

On mint 17 works fine, but a little more ugly, look: (mine on the left, yours on the right)



Btw what settings have you used?


Also i've found that some of the problems in mine are because of lGl (libGL.so). I have it installed but not in the folder he wants. But i've made a symbolic link the fist time i've posted in this thread so i could compile in the first place, dunno if has something to do with this.


Nevertheless, i feel like making a complete static application is impossible, and since it works in a clean ubuntu and similar, it's ok. The other systems can install the dependencies from the repos (and this dependencies show on the terminal so it's not a big deal i think).

CurlyMo

22nd Jan, 2015, 10:31 AM
Can you post the output when it "complains"? And can you post the output of ldd XBian-installer

calhaus

22nd Jan, 2015, 11:10 AM
(22nd Jan, 2015 10:31 AM)CurlyMo Wrote: [ -> ]Can you post the output when it "complains"? And can you post the output of ldd XBian-installer

When i use this on xbian-installer.pro:
Spoiler (Click to View)
(Without -static compiles fine but with lots of dependencies.)

I get this output, "complains" at the end in bold:
Spoiler (Click to View)
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Errors of our executable in elementaryOS:
Spoiler (Click to View)
Ldd:
Spoiler (Click to View)

rikardo1979

22nd Jan, 2015, 06:00 PM
@CurlyMo
and how do I run it?

CurlyMo

22nd Jan, 2015, 07:01 PM
Did you made it an executable: chmod +x XBian-installer?

rikardo1979

22nd Jan, 2015, 09:26 PM
(22nd Jan, 2015 07:01 PM)CurlyMo Wrote: [ -> ]Did you made it an executable: chmod +x XBian-installer?

havent seen any info about it before Wink
we still trying to make it "idiot" prove, right? Big Grin Tongue
working this way, but as mentioned, it does look a bit weird and oldish style



edit:as usual, I do what user would do Wink not a developer or advanced user of Linux

CurlyMo

22nd Jan, 2015, 10:59 PM
Can you guys try the last upload: http://www.xbian.org/XBian-installer.zip

rikardo1979

22nd Jan, 2015, 11:06 PM
(22nd Jan, 2015 10:59 PM)CurlyMo Wrote: [ -> ]Can you guys try the last upload: http://www.xbian.org/XBian-installer.zip

Terminal
This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb".

Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

CurlyMo

22nd Jan, 2015, 11:27 PM
Damn, i can't seem to get past that issue.

rikardo1979

23rd Jan, 2015, 12:53 AM
(22nd Jan, 2015 11:27 PM)CurlyMo Wrote: [ -> ]Damn, i can't seem to get past that issue.

wish I could help you

calhaus

23rd Jan, 2015, 04:58 AM
Same xcb problem.

I think we should go with the dynamic app.
For a clean Ubuntu (and Mint) 14.04 and 14.10 (and probably 1 year recent distros) everything is already included and works fine.

elementaryOS release luna is still based on ubuntu 12.04, it's kind of old. and they don't even have qt5 stuff on the repos. :/

Tried the new upcoming elementary (Freya), it got dependency issues, easily solved by installing "qt5-default"
If users got dependencies problems, it shows in the terminal output which ones are and they can go and install what's missing, and "qt5-default" should install everything needed for it to work.

In my opinion it's easy to use a small installer and include a readme file telling people to install "qt5-default" if they have faulty dependencies,it's needs to get only 19.8MB of files (84MB extracted), not that much, smaller that the static executable and most systems dont even need it .
(Also it's easier for users to compile the git version dynamically).

rikardo1979

23rd Jan, 2015, 05:12 AM
(23rd Jan, 2015 04:58 AM)calhaus Wrote: [ -> ]Same xcb problem.

I think we should go with the dynamic app.
For a clean Ubuntu (and Mint) 14.04 and 14.10 (and probably 1 year recent distros) everything is already included and works fine.

elementaryOS release luna is still based on ubuntu 12.04, it's kind of old. and they don't even have qt5 stuff on the repos. :/

Tried the new upcoming elementary (Freya), it got dependency issues, easily solved by installing "qt5-default"
If users got dependencies problems, it shows in the terminal output which ones are and they can go and install what's missing, and "qt5-default" should install everything needed for it to work.

In my opinion it's easy to use a small installer and include a readme file telling people to install "qt5-default" if they have faulty dependencies. (it's around 65mb if i'm not mistaken, not that much, and most systems dont even need it).
(Also it's easier for users to compile the git version dynamically).
the best option I would say, as I mentioned before Wink
btw, how many of you heard of anyone used elementaryOS before I mentioned it? Big Grin I had it installed just to test. it was nice eye candy looking thing but as you can see there are some issues, and trust me, it wasnt just this. there were so many other issues.
And I still think, the best is to focus on most common and most used

calhaus

23rd Jan, 2015, 05:24 AM
(23rd Jan, 2015 05:12 AM)rikardo1979 Wrote: [ -> ]
(23rd Jan, 2015 04:58 AM)calhaus Wrote: [ -> ]Same xcb problem.

I think we should go with the dynamic app.
For a clean Ubuntu (and Mint) 14.04 and 14.10 (and probably 1 year recent distros) everything is already included and works fine.

elementaryOS release luna is still based on ubuntu 12.04, it's kind of old. and they don't even have qt5 stuff on the repos. :/

Tried the new upcoming elementary (Freya), it got dependency issues, easily solved by installing "qt5-default"
If users got dependencies problems, it shows in the terminal output which ones are and they can go and install what's missing, and "qt5-default" should install everything needed for it to work.

In my opinion it's easy to use a small installer and include a readme file telling people to install "qt5-default" if they have faulty dependencies. (it's around 65mb if i'm not mistaken, not that much, and most systems dont even need it).
(Also it's easier for users to compile the git version dynamically).
the best option I would say, as I mentioned before Wink
btw, how many of you heard of anyone used elementaryOS before I mentioned it? Big Grin I had it installed just to test. it was nice eye candy looking thing but as you can see there are some issues, and trust me, it wasnt just this. there were so many other issues.
And I still think, the best is to focus on most common and most used
Yes. in the most common works fine. (Haven't tested debian, fedora, arch or suse, but they should have qt5 dependencies installed or in the repos also, or they can download and install qt5-default).

(About elementary, never used it, just new it was really simple and installed their music player (noise) because of it's simplicity and had the things i needed, but did not worked 100% at the time and removed it)

CurlyMo

23rd Jan, 2015, 05:27 AM
I still not giving up Wink
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