Hello,

I have successfully install Lich on 5 Ubuntu 16.04 computers. However, I have two brand new builds the gtk2 -v 3.0.8 gem fails to build:

user@britt-X550CA:~/ruby-2.0.0-p648$ gem list

* LOCAL GEMS *

atk (3.0.8)
bigdecimal (1.2.0)
cairo (1.15.9)
gdk_pixbuf2 (3.0.8)
glib2 (3.0.8)
io-console (0.4.2)
json (1.7.7)
minitest (4.3.2)
native-package-installer (1.0.4)
pango (3.0.8)
pkg-config (1.2.6)
psych (2.0.0)
rake (0.9.6)
rdoc (4.0.0)
sqlite3 (1.3.13) - installs fine
test-unit (2.0.0.0)


user@britt-X550CA:~/ruby-2.0.0-p648$ sudo gem install gtk2 -v 3.0.8
Fetching: pkg-config-1.2.6.gem (100%)
Successfully installed pkg-config-1.2.6
Fetching: glib2-3.0.8.gem (100%)
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
Successfully installed glib2-3.0.8
Fetching: atk-3.0.8.gem (100%)
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
Successfully installed atk-3.0.8
Fetching: native-package-installer-1.0.4.gem (100%)
Successfully installed native-package-installer-1.0.4
Fetching: cairo-1.15.9.gem (100%)
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
Successfully installed cairo-1.15.9
Fetching: pango-3.0.8.gem (100%)
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
Successfully installed pango-3.0.8
Fetching: gdk_pixbuf2-3.0.8.gem (100%)
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
Successfully installed gdk_pixbuf2-3.0.8
Fetching: gtk2-3.0.8.gem (100%)
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing gtk2:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/usr/local/bin/ruby extconf.rb
checking for --enable-debug-build option... no
checking for -Wall option to compiler... yes
checking for -Waggregate-return option to compiler... yes
checking for -Wcast-align option to compiler... yes
checking for -Wextra option to compiler... yes
checking for -Wformat=2 option to compiler... yes
checking for -Winit-self option to compiler... yes
checking for -Wlarger-than-65500 option to compiler... yes
checking for -Wmissing-declarations option to compiler... yes
checking for -Wmissing-format-attribute option to compiler... yes
checking for -Wmissing-include-dirs option to compiler... yes
checking for -Wmissing-noreturn option to compiler... yes
checking for -Wmissing-prototypes option to compiler... yes
checking for -Wnested-externs option to compiler... yes
checking for -Wold-style-definition option to compiler... yes
checking for -Wpacked option to compiler... yes
checking for -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 option to compiler... yes
checking for -Wpointer-arith option to compiler... yes
checking for -Wswitch-default option to compiler... yes
checking for -Wswitch-enum option to compiler... yes
checking for -Wundef option to compiler... yes
checking for -Wout-of-line-declaration option to compiler... no
checking for -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations option to compiler... yes
checking for -Wwrite-strings option to compiler... yes
checking for rb_define_alloc_func() in ruby.h... yes
checking for rb_block_proc() in ruby.h... yes
checking for new allocation framework... yes
checking for attribute assignment... no
checking for rb_errinfo()... yes
checking for cairo... yes
checking for rb_cairo.h... yes
checking for Windows... no
checking for gtk+-2.0 version (>= 2.10.0)... yes
checking for st.h... yes
checking for ruby/st.h... yes
checking for target... * extconf.rb failed *
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary
libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more details. You may
need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:
--with-opt-dir
--without-opt-dir
--with-opt-include
--without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
--with-opt-lib
--without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
--with-make-prog
--without-make-prog
--srcdir=.
--curdir
--ruby=/usr/local/bin/ruby
--enable-debug-build
--disable-debug-build
--with-pkg-config
--without-pkg-config
--with-override-variables
--without-override-variables
extconf.rb:80:in `<main>': can't find gdkkeysyms.h (RuntimeError)
x11

Gem files will remain installed in /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/gtk2-3.0.8 for inspection.
Results logged to /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/gtk2-3.0.8/ext/gtk2/gem_make.out

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Happy to help, but please understand - I don't do a ton of Linux so if we trip across something unique there I may have to recommend another. Most of the experience will be exactly the same as OSX, but sometimes file locations or compiler flags can turn left at Albuquerque on us.

That error message, though. . . now that, that is very familiar to me. It usually means that the cairo build was completed from a home brew brewed keg and that the x11 code headers never get placed.

Before we run this merry rabbit to ground, though - is there a set of instructions somewhere that you're following, or can you outline the steps you used? I want to check a thing, or two to be sure we get everything covered at once.

I'm sending this along in response to your email, as well - pick whichever venue works best for you to respond in.

Doug

>>Any suggestions for how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.

JASEDIT - I'll shoot you a quick email, too.

For those joining us looking for answers to Linux (so far, Ubuntu 16.04.3) and running into this error can't find gdkkeysyms.h (RuntimeError), the problem seems to be associated with GTK2 version 3.0.8 (which works on Mac, but apparently won't here). My advice:

0) If you haven't already considered / do not have a Ruby environment manager installed (I much prefer rbenv and am far more familiar with it than others), I would strongly encourage you to do so.
1) If you are not running at least Ruby v 2.2.5, please upgrade to that release (see recommendation 0 above, please). The latest GTK gems and libraries expect at least Ruby version 2.1.x. Rubies version 2.0.x and 2.1.x are end-of-life. To be fair, 2.2.x is coming to end-of-life as well, but Lich needs some work before 2.3 or better can be used.
2) If you are running Ruby v 2.3.x, please back-rev to v 2.2.5 (see recommendation 1 above).
3) If you have installed the gem GTK2 at version 3.0.8, please uninstall it, and all associated 3.0.8 gems. You'll also want to remove the cairo and cairo object gems, to ensure a clean build. The command below may help if you're not up to uninstalling gems individually (but use with extreme caution!)
4) After you have a clean (hopefully rbenv managed) Ruby environment, then issue this command -- gem install gtk2 -- that's it, no version, no nothing else. At present, this will install GTK2 version 3.1.8 which does work (confirmed on Windows, Mac and Ubuntu 16.04.3). Note If you jumped right to this command and tried it, and it failed, please check to be sure your ruby version is at least 2.1.x.

Bonus 5) If you're using Frostbite (an FE designed by and for Dragonrealms), please note that you may have one additional step you must take. You'll have to use the web to download / install Stormfront. If you don't do this, Frostbite will display a bunch of erroneous data and then not allow for game / command input.

Things for Doug to do - I want to try out Frostbite myself (always enjoy a new FE), and I want to see how it is packaged for delivery. It might spur some thought processes for me on how to simplify non-Windows Unix-based installs for the 'rest of us'.

Good luck, and let us know how you do!

Doug

I was already using ruby 2.2.5 and rbenv, so that part was easy. Switching to the latest version of GTK cleared up the issues with Lich - I also had to install winetricks to get Stormfront to not crash immediately, but now things seem to be working fine. Thanks!

From what I can tell, Stormfront under Wine is unbearably slow (screen scroll is staggeringly slow), which is really annoying. Are there any tricks to making Stormfront work well under Wine, or is that just the state of things?

I've been trying other options. Avalon seems to work reasonably well, but it appears that all thoughts are directed to the Room window, not the Thoughts window. Is this an Avalon issue, or a lich issue, or some new behavior?

Thanks again for all the help - it's very exciting to have things working without virtualization. Stormfront under virtualization crashes for me every hour or so, which makes hunting even more exciting than I'd prefer.

>>I tried Parallels once ... it was so slow I uninstalled it and counted that wasted money.

That's too bad. I had a great experience with Parallels, but that was on a work laptop with 16GB and a Quad processor (MacBook Pro). (don't hit me!) I dedicated 2 CPU and 8GB of RAM to the VM, so it had plenty of resources.

The slowness appears to be something along the lines of a quarter of the screen scroll rate or less - running between Solhaven North Market and Bonespear Tower shows screen scroll at about half the rate of StormFront under Parallels. I can try the Wizard frontend to see if it has reasonable performance, but it seems as though the performance difference is very significant.

I've been using Avalon on and off, and it looks like everything from Lich goes into the room window. Running update-playershops shows all the movement and descriptions going to the room window, so it's more than just thoughts. Perhaps this is all part of the known issue, but it's worth mentioning how pervasive the redirection oddities are.

After going the wrong way around, that indeed fixes everything with Avalon. I'd still be curious about what tweaks can be made to optimize Stormfront under wine, but Avalon is now usable enough to test stability as compared to the Parallels solution. Thank you all for the wonderful help!