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Gamedev and linux (treebrary.pone.social)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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[–] [S] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Umm... Zlib is everywhere. It just works. Even without steam. Even 20-years old games can run on moderns distros while using system libraries. Like UT2004 does.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Managed to delete my comment by mistake (sorry for the two notifications)

    If a common library like zlib is in a non-standard place or is not symlinked to a standard place then I've seen GOG games fail to launch. Steam's vendoring approach makes supporting a variety of distros much easier.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Which is wierd. The only way I can imagine this happaning is linking to a library by absolute path. Can you check binary with ldd?

    5-minutes google-fu says you can use patchelf to fix issue, but you better check with ldd and report as bug.

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