How to solve errors of the form: [library] version [something] not found (required by [library]) about conty

[Kron4ek]

./survivor-bin: /home/user/Downloads/SHADOWGROUNDS/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version 'CXXABI_1.3.8' not found (required by /usr/lib32/libGLU.so.1)

This is due to the fact that the game uses very old libraries with which the system (Conty) libraries are incompatible. Specifically here /usr/lib32/libGLU.so.1 is incompatible with old libstdc++.so.6 that the game uses.

I don't have 32bit libraries on my system (why I use conty to begin with), so I can't set the system LD_LIBRARY_PATH

LD_LIBRARY_PATH is just an environment variable, you can set it in your terminal session and Conty will consider it:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/some/path"
./conty.sh somecommand

However, LD_LIBRARY_PATH won't help here, because the problem is due to mixing very old libraries from the game with very new libraries from the system (Conty in this case), which are incompatible with each other.

The solution is to remove these libraries from the game's lib directory:

libstdc++.so.6 libz.so.1 libgcc_s.so.1 libuuid.so.1 libm.so.6

And the game will run, but there will be no sound.

[Kron4ek]

And for Prey (2006) the solution is to remove libgcc_s.so.1 from the game directory.