Running on Linux

[davidsmith1307]

I got this running on linux in a quick and dirty way.
The dynamic linker (ld) needs to know where the libraries are so you have a number of options

• Copy the contents of addons/godotFFMPEG/bin/linux64 to an ld-known directory such as /usr/local/lib (nasty)
• Add an entry to your ldconfig (this is distribution dependent but not too bad)
• Set an environment variable (LD_LIBARY_PATH) to include the addons/godotFFMPEG/bin/linux64 directory before running the application (or Godot editor)

Once you do this it works perfectly.

Man, I'd love to see this as a Godot 4 GDExtension (hint hint).

[davidsmith1307]

Screenshot shows the error before setting the environment variable, and the happiness after.

[DataPlusProgram]

Thanks for the assistance, I was able to get it running in Ubuntu by following your steps. I will list the steps I personally took for documentation sake in case anyone needs it

• I copied to contents addons/godotFFMPEG/bin/linux64 to a lib directory.
• sudo nano /etc/ld.so.conf and then added the path to the directory.
• sudo ldconfig (don't know if this was necessary)
• export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=path_to_lib_directory

After this it worked correctly. I only needed to run export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=path_to_lib_directory once and it appears to work even after reboot. I'm unsure how exactly Linux is storing it.

To get it to run on export you need to copy the contents of addons/godotFFMPEG/bin/linux64 to the same folder as the exported application. (I don't know if the preceding steps are still required for an exported application)

I might someday port this to Godot 4 when I finish up my remaining Godot 3 projects.

[davidsmith1307]

A port to 4 would be great. There seem to be a lot of people who would benefit from it. We could possibly fund you to do it.

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On Sun, 30 Apr 2023, 21:32 DataPlusProgram, ***@***.***> wrote: Thanks for the assistance, I was able to get it runing in Ubuntu by following your steps. I will list the steps I personally took for documentation sake in case anyone needs it - I copied to contents addons/godotFFMPEG/bin/linux64 to a lib directory. - sudo nano /etc/ld.so.conf and then added the path to the directory. - sudo ldconfig (don't know if this was necessary) - export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=path_to_lib_directory After this it worked correctly. I only needed to run export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=path_to_lib_directory once and it appears to work even after reboot. I'm unsure how exactly Linux is storing it. To get it to run on export you need to copy the contents of addons/godotFFMPEG/bin/linux64 to the same folder as the exported application. (I don't know if the preceding steps are still required for exported application) I might someday port this to Godot 4 when I finish up my remaining Godot 3 projects. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACTPOXDV4D73ARZ2JQIYBOTXD3D5RANCNFSM6AAAAAAXMCFTQU> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[davidsmith1307]

Once you have updated ld.so.conf and run ldconfig (or rebooted) then the new directory becomes a permanent 'lib' directory that the dynamic linker will check - that's why you never needed to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH again.

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On Sun, 30 Apr 2023 at 21:32, DataPlusProgram ***@***.***> wrote: Thanks for the assistance, I was able to get it runing in Ubuntu by following your steps. I will list the steps I personally took for documentation sake in case anyone needs it - I copied to contents addons/godotFFMPEG/bin/linux64 to a lib directory. - sudo nano /etc/ld.so.conf and then added the path to the directory. - sudo ldconfig (don't know if this was necessary) - export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=path_to_lib_directory After this it worked correctly. I only needed to run export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=path_to_lib_directory once and it appears to work even after reboot. I'm unsure how exactly Linux is storing it. To get it to run on export you need to copy the contents of addons/godotFFMPEG/bin/linux64 to the same folder as the exported application. (I don't know if the preceding steps are still required for exported application) I might someday port this to Godot 4 when I finish up my remaining Godot 3 projects. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACTPOXDV4D73ARZ2JQIYBOTXD3D5RANCNFSM6AAAAAAXMCFTQU> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

-- Dave Smith