game maker 8.1 WINE

[gandalf3]

I'm new to Linux, (Ubuntu 11.10) and was attempting to install game maker 8.1 with wine (i couldn't find any earlier versions with working download links) unfortunately, when i try to open the game maker EXE with wine, nothing happens.
i have tried lateralgm, but the lack of ability to run the gmk file is a major problem..
is there anyway to run the executables with lateralgm? or get gamemaker working? (assuming you can run the .gmk using gamemaker through wine)
any help appreciated..

[uRock]

Moved to Wine

[Toz]

Have you tried following the HOWTO at this page? http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...sion&iId=23252

[gandalf3]

yes.. it works okay until i try to run the game.. then there's an error dialog box "there is something seriously wrong with the program helloworldgame.exe or a problem with wine the program will shut down now." then wine is stuck open, because gamemaker keeps trying to save before wine closes, but it doesn't work..

[Toz]

Yes. According to that same link, running your created games doesn't work. You might want to create a bug report over at wineappdb and see if the wine devs will consider fixing it.

As an alternative, you could consider using virtualbox to create a Window VM and running the program in there.

[gandalf3]

to do that, i would have to mess with windows..
hmm.. i thought there might be some "add on" or something to run games created with lateralgm, but i never actually found anything..
oh well..
i guess i'll have to learn a real programming language. (i was planing to do that anyway, but..)

[gandalf3]

well.. i found this page sort of by accident the other day..
http://enigma-dev.org/docs/Wiki/Install:Git

and it looks like it will run the exe (i hope)
but i can't make much sense out of the "git client" and everything else..
could somebody explain how i go about installing this?
Thanks.
(sorry to be such a noob..)

[Toz]

To get the linux dev port installed, do the following:

1. Install git:

sudo apt-get install git

2. Pull the git code:

mkdir ~/enigma_git
cd ~/enigma_git
git clone git://github.com/enigma-dev/enigma-dev.git

3. Obtain additional dependencies:

cd enigma-dev
python install.py

4. Run enigma:

cd ~/enigma_git/enigma-dev
java -jar lgm16b4.jar

...Note: on the first run, it will compile the necessary library code (took a couple of minutes on my system).

5. Try to load a project and see if it works. I'm sorry but I don't have any projects to test.

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Other notes: To update the git source code (to get the latest source updates):

cd ~/enigma_git/enigma-dev
git pull

[gandalf3]

when i did

python install.py

i got

~/enigma_git/enigma-dev$ python install.py
Enigma package manager
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "install.py", line 5, in <module>
    webFile = urllib.urlopen(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 86, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 204, in open
    return self.open_unknown(fullurl, data)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 216, in open_unknown
    raise IOError, ('url error', 'unknown url type', type)
IOError: [Errno url error] unknown url type: 'https'

was that supposed to happen? (something tells me it wasn't..)

[Toz]

How have you installed python 2.7? It seems to be located in your /usr/local tree. The default python 2.7 install just goes in the /usr tree.

What does the following return:

apt-cache policy python2.7

I think you may need to have python-httplib2 installed or python compiled with ssl support.