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

[MarisaG1967]

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.

Thanks!

[Flinx]

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.

[MarisaG1967]

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.

[airsoftsoftwair]

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.

[NubeCheCorre]

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?

[airsoftsoftwair]

On Linux things are more difficult than on other platforms given the wide variety of distributions so to make an educated guess I need to know the following: What Linux distribution and version are you on? What desktop environment (GNOME, KDE...)? Which GTK version is installed?

For the best compatibility I recommend using the x64-linux-gtk3 flavour because the -webview flavour depends on an external component which is often not installed by default. Have you tried x64-linux-gtk3?

[NubeCheCorre]

First of all thanks for the reply Andreas

I am using Debian 12 with KDE. I deleted my previous installation of Hollywood and reinstalled everything from scratch, installing only RapaGUI as plugin, and I installed, as you suggested, the GTK-3 version but nothing changed.. If try to compile a project, it tells me that the project is compiled but in the log file I found the error about Rapagui.. But Rapagui is available in the plugin drawer and I can see it inside the Hollywood gui..
This time I installed Hollywood inside my Home folder of Debian

Here is the output of my terminal that shows which libraries are installed about gtk:

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dpkg -l libgtk2.0-0 libgtk-3-0
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name              Version           Architecture Description
+++-=================-=================-============-==================================================
ii  libgtk-3-0:amd64  3.24.38-2~deb12u3 amd64        GTK graphical user interface library
ii  libgtk2.0-0:amd64 2.24.33-2+deb12u1 amd64        GTK graphical user interface library - old version
davide@Giulia:~$ apt-cache policy libgtk2.0-0 libgtk-3-0
libgtk2.0-0:
  Installed: 2.24.33-2+deb12u1
  Candidate: 2.24.33-2+deb12u1
  Version table:
 *** 2.24.33-2+deb12u1 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libgtk-3-0:
  Installed: 3.24.38-2~deb12u3
  Candidate: 3.24.38-2~deb12u3
  Version table:
 *** 3.24.38-2~deb12u3 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
davide@Giulia:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep gtk
breeze-gtk-theme                                install
gir1.2-gtk-2.0:amd64                            install
gir1.2-gtk-3.0:amd64                            install
gtk-update-icon-cache                           install
gtk2-engines-pixbuf:amd64                       install
kde-config-gtk-style:amd64                      install
libcanberra-gtk3-0:amd64                        install
libcanberra-gtk3-module:amd64                   install
libdbusmenu-gtk3-4:amd64                        install
libgtk-3-0:amd64                                install
libgtk-3-bin                                    install
libgtk-3-common                                 install
libgtk2.0-0:amd64                               install
libgtk2.0-bin                                   install
libgtk2.0-common                                install
libgtk2.0-dev:amd64                             install
libgtkmm-3.0-1v5:amd64                          install
libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1-0:amd64                install
libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0:amd64                       install
libwxgtk-gl3.2-1:amd64                          install
libwxgtk3.2-1:amd64                             install
python3-wxgtk4.0                                install
qt5-gtk-platformtheme:amd64                     install
qt6-gtk-platformtheme:amd64                     install
transmission-gtk                                install
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk                          install

Maybe the problem is Wayland?

[NubeCheCorre]

ok, finally i was able to make it work on my system and the solution was really very very simple...

I checked the code of the various examples of rapagui and i simply changed this line:

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@REQUIRE "RapaGUI"

to this ->

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@REQUIRE "rapagui.hwp"

I tested it against both x64-linux and x64-linux-gtk3, and they both work fine