How to install GemRB on Windows?

[Guest Dreamtide]

What do I need to install GemRB on Windows and how is it done? The documentation didn't make me any wiser. Can somebody please guide me through this?

[Avenger]

It would be helpful if you tell me what you have already done and where you got stuck.

Normally (optimally) you just have to unpack the binary version to a directory and edit the gemrb.cfg file.

The .cfg file is well documented (in itself).

 

You only need to install python (sdl and openal dll's are provided with the binary package). Except if you go with the vc 8 version, which needs another file to be downloaded and installed (this is documented, i think).

 

Reading on up on this forum might be helpful too.

 

By the way, you must be aware that GemRB isn't complete yet.

[Guest Guest]

Ah, I seem to understand it now. Thanks anyway!

[WizWom]

No, no documentation anywhere about how to actually get this working.

 

Unpack to a directory, correct the gemrb.cfg, run gemrb.exe, get error:

The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0150002).

 

Running Windows Visa Home Premium.

 

Tried making a gemrb.ini - and the error did not change.

[Avenger]

Which exe?

 

If you used the third party msvc8 thingie, then you gotta install the m$ redistributable library stuff too. I believe this was mentioned somewhere.

 

Blame M$

Or, yourself for using Vista.

[Avenger]

This could be read in the release notes for the VS8 Windows binary download.

So if you indeed used it, then you just missed this:

 

 

This package was compiled on Windows, using Visual Studio 2005

You will need to download and install python 2.5 and the visual studio redistributable runtime.

 

Links:

 

http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5.1/

 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en

[WizWom]

well, actually, I grabbed the 0.2.9 ZIP, not the MSI. that explains why I was shy documentation.

[Avenger]

The zip doesn't need the abovementioned treatment.

Though, you still need to install a Python version.

 

And, since the zip was almost surely compiled with a different version of Python, you'll need to copy your version of pythonXX.dll over the one in the gemrb directory.

This was also mentioned somewhere

 

[edit]

 

btw, you are right, making this stuff to work on windows (and without a compiler) isn't easy.

[WizWom]

well, it works - until I get control. It went through the whole opening cut scene and Imoen's welcome dialog, then crashed. Likewise, it crashes when I load a saved game.

[Avenger]

I have a suspicion that it isn't a real crash.

Does the program exit totally, or you just get a game area without any gui panels.

 

In any case, can you quote the last parts of the console log?

I'm almost sure this is just a python problem (which could be fixed by the way i wrote above).

[WizWom]

nope, Crash to Desktop, and nope, can't get a console log, because it crashes and closes.

 

On AR0602 load, it displays last the MoveBetweenAreas calls for the Genie, then CTD. That is, it runs the whole load and script, but as soon as I would be given control.