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trying to use rapagui on linux... executable won't start

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I'm on Ubuntu and trying to write a game that uses rapagui, and when compiling it it says it is successful and in the log I see it is saying it was able to find rapagui.hwp. But when I run the executable it pops a window saying that rapagui.hwp is required.

What did I do wrong? As I said it says it found and loaded rapagui.hwp at compile time and in HollywoodGUI it lists the rapagui examples etc.

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Re: trying to use rapagui on linux... executable won't start

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Did you place RapaGUI in the directory of the executable? If so, is it really the correct version (32-bit or 64-bit must match too)?
You can also link a plugin to the executable, but this may cause licensing issues. Please read the Linking plugins section in the manual.
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Flinx wrote: Tue Aug 12, 2025 2:12 pm Did you place RapaGUI in the directory of the executable? If so, is it really the correct version (32-bit or 64-bit must match too)?
You can also link a plugin to the executable, but this may cause licensing issues. Please read the Linking plugins section in the manual.
Yes I belive I placed it in there. As I said it loads the plugin when compiling my game, and thos is the only plugin I am using so licensing should not be a issue. I read that link before but from what I could see there is only one folder for Linux, not all of the linux platforms supported in Hollywood.
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Re: trying to use rapagui on linux... executable won't start

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RapaGUI on Linux is a bit more complicated because there are four different builds (GTK2, GTK2+webview, GTK3, GTK3+webview). My guess is that you've linked a webview build of RapaGUI to the executable but gtk-webview isn't installed on your system. To see why RapaGUI fails loading, you have to install Hollywood and RapaGUI on your Linux system and start it from a terminal. If it fails to load RapaGUI, it will print some info on why it couldn't be loaded to the console, typically because some components are missing on the Linux system.
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Re: trying to use rapagui on linux... executable won't start

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I have the same exact problem.. I am not able to display the demos of Rapagui..
I would like to know, talking about the plugins copyright and GPL licence, what happen if I realize a program with rapagui (a cms program) and I include the plugin in the program in a proper directory called "Plugins" so that the required plugin is included together with the program and so it is not statically linked to the exe? is it legal?
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