Defold Editor Not Starting in Linux

morti · October 11, 2015, 7:38am

I’ve downloaded Defold Editor and it’s not starting. I’m using Arch Linux and when I try to run it, it gives me this output:

radon apps/Defold-linux.gtk.x86 » ./Defold
ERROR: Resource type for extension ‘gui’ already registred (com.dynamo.cr.guied.resourcetypes.gui)
Defold:
An error has occurred. See the log file

I’ve read that this could be due to eclipse error when there’s a space in the path but:

radon apps/Defold-linux.gtk.x86 » pwd
/home/morti/apps/Defold-linux.gtk.x86

Here’s the log file: http://pastebin.com/ViZWMdX5

sicher · October 11, 2015, 2:31pm

Thanks for the report. We have other reports of this problem and are looking for a solution.

Btw, are you running 32 or 64 bit Linux?

morti · October 11, 2015, 5:39pm

I’m running 64bit Linux

sicher · October 11, 2015, 8:18pm

Ok. We have tested mostly on 32bit and I am not sure how to get it running on a 64 bit system. I’m gonna do some tests on a 64 bit system and will let you know what happens.

EDIT: No luck with this, unfortunately. It might be 32 bit library dependencies somewhere, but chances are that it won’t work and that we need to do work to get 64 bit support. I’ll take it up with the team.

kotemon · October 17, 2015, 1:36pm

hey @sicher,
i tried the linux client, and didn’t sucess too.
i am using Ubuntu Mate 14.10 64 bit ,

this is my error message on terminal :

ERROR: Resource type for extension 'gui' already registred (com.dynamo.cr.guied.resourcetypes.gui)
Defold:
An error has occurred. See the log file
/home/kotkoth/installer/defold/workspace/.metadata/.log.

and this is on .metadata/.log
http://pasted.co/b5896d77

i am very excited to try defold , looking forward !

sicher · October 18, 2015, 4:50pm

Thanks! Yes, that seems to be the error you get on 64 bit Linux. We will add support for 64 bit but I cannot say when that will be ready.

vgerris · November 30, 2015, 8:07am

a workaround for now:

get java 32 bit and extract it : http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html
change the Defold.ini file and have the -vm option point to the jre/bin folder, i my case /home/vincent/jdk1.8.0_66/jre/bin
install the 32 bits swt libraries, I used:
sudo apt-get install libswt-gtk-3-jni:i386 libt-gtk-3-java:i386 (maybe to many but that worked for me)

I suppose to way to support 64 bit is to be able to use the 64 bit libraries mostly?
If I can help out with it somehow, please let me know

Greetings Vincent

vrav · December 11, 2015, 12:40am

Hi, was pretty into using this engine but ran into the same 64 bit linux limitation. Too bad.

I spent a few hours today trying to force it to work, but I couldn’t get .swt/lib/linux/x86/libswt-mozilla-gtk-3836.so to find libxpcom.so.

The architecture of the one I found in kompozer package on arch was, according to objdump -f, i386:x86_64, whereas libswt-mozilla-gtk-3836.so is simply i386. I could probably find or compile a 32 bit libxpcom.so somewhere but without libswt-mozilla-gtk-3838.so loading, the editor didn’t work.

To be honest I’m not much of an expert at java and multilib stuff so the solution might be there somewhere, but I have to give up on defold for now. (at least until 64bit linux support… plans for that?)

sicher · December 11, 2015, 10:12am

There are definitely plans for 64 bit support, but I have no good ETA yet.

vgerris · December 22, 2015, 8:03am

yes, I learned later that it does not work too and gave up for now because it is on the list to be fixed. Apologies for not updating the the thread.
Let’s hope it will be rather sooner than later

Andrew_Tonko · February 2, 2016, 11:03pm

Download xulrunner from here:
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/xulrunner/releases/3.6.28/runtimes/
And unpack somewhere

Add this lines to Defold.ini
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.DefaultType=mozilla -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=<path to xulrunner directory>
To fix git integration:
sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.8

britzl · February 2, 2016, 11:14pm

And this enabled you to run Defold on Linux?

Andrew_Tonko · February 2, 2016, 11:25pm

yes, it helped me to run defold editor on linux mint (32 bit)

britzl · February 2, 2016, 11:34pm

Nice, thanks for sharing!

vgerris · February 7, 2016, 11:06pm

it does not work for me, the editor starts but any action seems not working with the error tab showing some null loop stuff.
there is also no libssl0.9.8 package on Ubuntu 15.10.

Ragnar_Svensson · March 22, 2016, 12:01pm

I posted som updates on this topic in another thread.

nicloay · January 5, 2017, 2:10pm

I can start editor but getting the same error if I start editor from the command line. But i’m running editor on MacOS El Capitan

britzl · January 5, 2017, 10:32pm

Would you mind creating a new forum topic since your issue isn’t related to running the editor on Linux?

nvioir · October 18, 2017, 9:09pm

NOT work in Ubuntu 64

britzl · October 19, 2017, 3:23am

Do you get an error message or anything else that hints at what’s wrong? It should work on Ubuntu.