Build is failing because of asset file size about deadascend

[Larpon]

@MCMic - wow - didn't know it was getting packaged :-o
That's awesome!
In my new game I've made a separate qmake make target - that runs rcc on the command line and build an external assets.rcc that gets detected and loaded at runtime - this is way faster let alone more memory efficient than compiling it all into the binary - will an extra make target (make assets) be a problem you think?

[Larpon]

Woops. Wrong button

[MCMic]

No I don’t think an extra make target would be a problem. I can test it if you push it to a branch.
I’m not used to QML…

If there are commands to build and install the game packaging to ArchLinux should be easy ^^
You can look at what I did for FreeSiege for instance: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=freesiege
I expect Dead Ascend to be about the same steps but with qmake instead of cmake.

[Larpon]

@MCMic you should be able to build it more efficiently now by running something like

qmake DeadAscend.pro
make assets # <- Note this extra step
make

[MCMic]

I’m failing to use this. It says «make: *** Aucune règle pour fabriquer la cible « assets ». Arrêt.» (it cannot find assets target)

I tried deleting Makefile and running qmake with option «-nocache» without any success. qmake does not give any output so it’s not helpful, not sure what I’m doing wrong.

[akien-mga]

The assets target is only defined in App/Makefile, so you need to run make assets -C App.

[MCMic]

@akien-mga Thanks that works.
But it seems make install does not support the DESTDIR option so it cannot be used for packaging. (+ it tries to install in /opt it seems instead of /usr/share/…)

[akien-mga]

See #4 for a clarification on build instructions.

[akien-mga]

With QMake-based projects you should use INSTALL_ROOT instead of DESTDIR. But yes, the install instructions are not packaging-friendly yet, it will only install the binary without the assets and into /opt instead of /usr/bin or /usr/games.

[akien-mga]

@MCMic See #7 for further discussion of Linux packaging.

[MCMic]

assets.rcc does not get built.
I think it’s because the target is named assets and there is a folder named assets in App and make thinks it’s the target.
If I rename the target from assets to assets.rcc and run «make assets.rcc» it works.

Also make install should install assets.rcc as well (but see #7 about installation process)

[akien-mga]

@MCMic See #5, that's fixed already :)

[MCMic]

Oh, ok, sorry for the noise