Appimage fails to bundle needed libraries?

[nlburgin]

As was pointed out by the confused interloper submitting #303, the Appimage doesn't seem to work. Trying it myself, the only error message I got was

/tmp/.mount_NXEngi0sJICj/usr/bin/nxengine-evo: error while loading shared libraries: libjpeg.so.62: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

And then I ran

$ sudo apt install libjpeg62

And after that, the appimage actually worked as intended.

(I am on an ubuntu 24.04 variant)

So to me it seems like the only thing wrong with the appimage, currently, is that it's not actually bundling all the libraries it needs, and so it has has outside dependencies.

With the needed libraries onboard, it will still run. It's just not as self-contained as it's supposed to be; it's not really broken so much as it's just incomplete.

How hard would it be to add the needed libraries to the appimage build?

[isage]

The game looks for files in different locations. The appimage (release one, afair it's fixed in git) issue is that path to data got set to local one on github ci runner instead of relative one in appimage itself.

As for why it's working for you:
Are you sure you don't have game data in ~/.local/, /usr/local, etc?

[nlburgin]

If it's already fixed in git, then I guess there's not an issue (or rather, the real issue may just be that the release is four years old and cannot reflect the fix).

I guess I'll close this

[xordspar0]

If it's already fixed in git, then I guess there's not an issue (or rather, the real issue may just be that the release is four years old and cannot reflect the fix).

Yup, I regularly build my own AppImages from the main branch (or my PR branch) and use them.