[Ohrrpgce] Mac app bundles build on Windows crash on Mac

[James Paige]

Hello, Mike!

Actually, maybe we can avoid tar. I know we had reasons in the past, but 
they might have all evaporated by now. Originally I remember only 
wanting to use tools likely to be already installed on Linux/Mac, but 
Windows is the trouble-platform, and we have to bundle/download tools 
anyway. It is worth thinking over.

>    Or, alternately the tar format doesn't seem that complicated. Maybe a
>    highly specialized version is in order?

These sound like the words of a man who hasn't read any tar file format 
docs... or maybe I should say those sound like the words *I* spoke 
before I had read any tar file format docs :)

---
James

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 08:22:24PM -0400, Mike Caron wrote:
>    Hi guys, long time no see.
>    Is there some reason you're still using tar? Wouldn't it be easier to just
>    bundle 7zip or something? I understand that it supports tar. Probably a
>    few other formats too. You can obtain the console version here.
>    Or, alternately the tar format doesn't seem that complicated. Maybe a
>    highly specialized version is in order?
> 
>    On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:29 PM, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com>
>    wrote:
> 
>      On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 09:52:23AM -0700, James Paige wrote:
>      > I was almost finished releasing beelzebufo, when I was puzzled and
>      > displayed to discover that Mac App game bundles build on Windows do
>      not
>      > work. If you build them on mac, they work fine.
>      >
>      > Here is the crash message:
>      >
>      > http://pastebin.com/jhu5H4b8
>      >
>      > It looks like the problem has something to do with the SDL framework,
>      > but I don't understand how this would fail on windows because there
>      are
>      > no more symlinks.
> 
>      "dismayed" not "displayed"
> 
>      I took the working app build on a Mac and compared it to the broken app
>      built on Windows. I discovered that
>      Contents/FrameWorks/SDL_mixer.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/mikmod.framework
>      is empty in the broken app.
> 
>      I tested tar.exe from the command line, and discovered that when it
>      unpacks ohrrpgce-mac.minimal.tar it incorrectly unpacks several of the
>      subfolders into the current directory, instead of where they belong
>      under the OHRRPGCE-Game.app folder heirarchy.
> 
>      So the short answer is that this bug is, yet again, another instance of
>      the windows port of tar.exe being a worthless piece of crap :(
>      ---
>      James
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>    Mike Caron

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