Teeworlds on Steam, now released! (Page 2 of 3)

@heinrich5991, @Bumbletee: is that a Steam-only problem ?
@Bumbletee: does the non-Steam version work ?

If required I can test this on my Mac soon.

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My guess is that Steam might have a different structure for Mac-Applicatons and doesn't use the standard bundle-structure and thus mixes up sdl and freetype dependencies. If that is the case and the dependencies are stored somewhere else relative to the executable I can easily recompile and fix it. Well just a guess, tell me if I can help

HMH wrote:

@heinrich5991, @Bumbletee: is that a Steam-only problem ?
@Bumbletee: does the non-Steam version work ?

If required I can test this on my Mac soon.

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My guess is that Steam might have a different structure for Mac-Applicatons and doesn't use the standard bundle-structure and thus mixes up sdl and freetype dependencies. If that is the case and the dependencies are stored somewhere else relative to the executable I can easily recompile and fix it. Well just a guess, tell me if I can help

I have been playing Teeworlds since the 0.4 era, so yeah, the non-steam version always worked - apart from the 0.6.x (can't remember  which exactly) version that also shipped without the libraries for MacOS.

I have never installed freetype systemwide, so if it is not shipped with the game, it can't start.
If someone else tries it, he should make sure that he also never installed the libraries, because we can't assume that people downloading the steam version have the libraries installed.

About the mixing up of libraries:
The executable provided in the steam release searches the libraries in the relative path "executable_directory/.. /Frameworks/" which is the Layout the packaged app for MacOS is shipped in when downloading from this website. But in the steam release this folder layout is not available as only the executable from the packaged app is provided, missing everything else. (I have also not found any steam folder containing the libraries - I think they were just forgotten like in the 0.6.x release I mentioned earlier)

@heinrich5991

The folder structure provided by the steam release:
- data (folder)
- license.txt
- teeworlds
- teeworlds_srv
- storage.cfg
- readme.txt

The folder structure i get the steam version to work with (combined the steam-folder-layout and the normal release-folder-layout):
- Frameworks (folder)
   - libfreetype.6.dylib
   - SDL.framework
- MacOS (folder)
   - data (folder)
   - teeworlds
   - storage.cfg
- license.txt
- teeworlds_srv
- readme.txt

I introduced the MacOS folder because of the relative-path the executable uses for the libraries.
Of course steam isn't happy about moving the executable into another folder, but i just started it from there and it worked perfectly - so the steam config has to be changed as well to point to MacOS/teeworlds.

The versions of the library-files libfreetype.6.dylib, SDL.framework are the same as the ones in the releases on this website.

Now the game can start, but no data like graphics can be loaded.
I saw that you did not use the layout i proposed, but just copied the contents of the app package. This does not work - as starting a packaged game on the Mac sets the relative paths different than starting the executable directly (as steam does it). This means that the data folder has to be moved in the same place where teeworlds and teeworlds_srv are located.

No problem, I am glad I can help.
It is now working perfectly.
One minor thing is that the data folder is now existing twice, but that has only impact on the download size.

I know! I am finally able to play on a full server without ctf5.