Possible to port GridWars 2

spud11

@cyperghost Very strangely, when I use ldd gridwars-armhf-rel I get the response not a dynamic executable. I'm really not sure what that means as I copied the binary into the same folder as the other files, and made the binary executable.

mitu

@spud11 Can you run file gridwars-armhf-rel and see if it's an executable ?

spud11

@mitu Thanks, mitu.

What I got was:

gridwars-armhf-rel: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, EAB15 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/id-linux-armhf.so.3,  for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, BuildID[sha1]=b7e8dd092b0a3e8b03642021eb0cee8bca9e80a24, stripped

I've copied that from a photo I took on my home. Hopefully, I've transcribed it correctly.

cyperghost

@spud11 Wrong version of ld-linux-armhf.so.3? - I'm still on Jessie-build!

mitu

@spud11 Looks fine - i.e. it seems an executable.

cyperghost

@mitu Do you know why it fails in this case?

mitu

Have no idea - @spud11 are you downloading the file and then transferring to the PI ? Can you try downloading it directly on the PI with wget:

wget https://github.com/mmatyas/GridWars/releases/download/first-build/gridwars-armhf-rel

spud11

@mitu @cyperghost I'm still on Jessie. Yes, I did transfer from my PC to the pi so I'll use the wget method. Thanks.

spud11

@mitu @cyperghost. Alright, so I used wget and sudo moved the file to the relevant roms folder and tried running it with ./gridwars-armhf-rel. I got the permission denied error again. I then used ldd and got the same response as last time. Using the file command, I got the same information as last time. Very odd. Maybe it is something I've done to my system and that is why it just won't work. Or maybe it is the wrong version of id-linux-armhf.so.3.

cyperghost

@spud11 The error permission denied is a user right error. I think it's the filesystem - if you are using FAT32 then it's very likely you receive such a message. Try to upload/unpack the archive in directory /home/pi. Do not use any sudo command this will overwrite user permission from pi to root.

Then use command chmod +x binaryfilename to make the binary executable then run the binary with ./binaryfilename no sudo no bash just like I wrote.

As ultimate ratio you can use command sudo chown -R gridwarsdirectory pi:pi

spud11

@cyperghost Thanks. I wound up putting the files in a sub-folder of my /home/pi/ folder because, as you said, my roms folder is on a USB drive. Unfortunately, I still couldn't get it to work. Effectively, I had the same error messages. It's a bit of a pity, but I wonder whether any progress has been made on the porting of it in the meantime by @toto2000.