Cannot Start Game - Get Mod Screen Instead

[gw1500se]

I don't know what I did but I am no longer able to launch the game. Rather than the start screen coming up, I am getting the mods screen. There seems to be no way to get from that screen to the game. How do I fix this?

[Guest]

'public' mod needs to be enabled. What you are seeing is what happens when you either disabled 'public' and saved the configuration, or if you somehow deleted it. Probably the former.

[gw1500se]

Thanks for the reply. I don't see anything about public on that screen. There is an enable/disable button but it is grayed out as is the visit web site button.

[Imarok]

11 hours ago, gw1500se said:

Thanks for the reply. I don't see anything about public on that screen. There is an enable/disable button but it is grayed out as is the visit web site button.

Wanna post a screenshot?

[gw1500se]

Here it is.

[feneur]

Have you deleted anything in the 0 A.D. folder? Have you tried installing some mods?

[gw1500se]

I wanted to look at some different maps so I extracted binaries/data/mods/public/public.zip. That is when it started so I re-zipped it but that didn't help.

[Stan`]

Are you sure the mod.json file is still next to the zip file ?

[gw1500se]

As far as I recall there was never anything other than the zip file in that directory. I certainly wouldn't have deleted it intentionally.

[Stan`]

Try copying it from inside the zip

[gw1500se]

That didn't help much. Now I get this screen but I don't know what to do from there.

[Stan`]

Save configuration, start mods

[gw1500se]

No joy. It comes right back to the mods screen.

[Lion.Kanzen]

Try to install again. I never see this before.

[gw1500se]

Should I report this as a bug? Do I need to collect some debug info first?

[Stan`]

Well if you can reproduce it yes but here I guess it's because of one of your experiments

[Guest]

Sure the game does not bundle the thing any special way?

I guess it could work with the un-zipped folder. (Might need to move it though)

[gw1500se]

Well, I tried to reinstall and I am back to getting errors in the make. Please see https://wildfiregames.com/forum/index.php?/topic/24985-installation-on-centos-7/. Boost has been the main problem. Now for some reason it will no longer link.

==== Building pyrogenesis (release) ====
Linking pyrogenesis
obj/pyrogenesis_Release/main.o: In function `generic_category':
/usr/local/include/boost/system/error_code.hpp:498: undefined reference to `boost::system::detail::generic_category_ncx()'
/usr/local/include/boost/system/error_code.hpp:498: undefined reference to `boost::system::detail::generic_category_ncx()'
/usr/local/include/boost/system/error_code.hpp:498: undefined reference to `boost::system::detail::generic_category_ncx()'
/usr/local/include/boost/system/error_code.hpp:498: undefined reference to `boost::system::detail::generic_category_ncx()'
/usr/local/include/boost/system/error_code.hpp:498: undefined reference to `boost::system::detail::generic_category_ncx()'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [../../../binaries/system/pyrogenesis] Error 1
make: *** [pyrogenesis] Error 2

Very frustrating.

[Stan`]

... Have you retried to reinstall Boost ?

I'm sorry things are so complicated for you.

[Loki1950]

53 minutes ago, stanislas69 said:

. Have you retried to reinstall Boost ?

 

And do not forget -dev library that goes with it as that is where the *.h files the headers that the link phase needs to finish the compile.

Enjoy the Choice

[gw1500se]

I did. Same error. It drives me nuts when something that worked before fails for no apparent reason.

[s0600204]

When you extracted the zip file, how did the folder structure look? [...]/mods/public/public/[art|maps|...] or [...]/mods/public/[art|maps|...]

Similarly, what is the structure of the new zip file - is there a mod.json in the root level of the new zipped file? And how exactly did you re-zip it?

[gw1500se]

public/public

[Guest]

Thats not right. It should be like the second one.

[s0600204]

Indeed. When not zipped, the folder structure should be:

./binaries/data/mods/public/
	|- art/
	|- audio/
	|- globalscripts/
	|- [...]
	'- mod.json

Whilst when zipped, it should be:

./binaries/data/mods/public/
	'- public.zip
		|- art/
		|- audio/
		|- globalscripts/
		|- [...]
		'- mod.json