A guide to running PySolFC on a Mac

[holgersindbaek]

I'd love to mess around with your library, but I'm kind of new to Python. Is there any chance that someone can post a quick guide on how to get up and running on a Mac?

[shlomif]

@holgersindbaek : hi! pysolfc is not a library (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_(computing) ), but rather a collection of games as a GUI program/application: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface . Furthermore, its choice of licence ( GPLv3 ) may limit the legal usability of most of its code as such.

Python should be easy to learn (see the recommended resources: https://github.com/shlomif/Freenode-programming-channel-FAQ/blob/master/FAQ_with_ToC__generated.md#i-want-to-learn-programming-which-language-should-i-start-with ) and you may have some luck with the macOS packages: (see the .app.tar.xz here: https://github.com/shlomif/PySolFC/releases/tag/pysolfc-2.10.1 ). We could use some help with testing on macOS.

Thanks! and good luck.

[holgersindbaek]

Thanks for the clarification. I'm trying to run the app, but I get the following error:

➜  PySolFC git:(master) ✗ python pysol.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "pysol.py", line 41, in <module>
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
  File "/PySolFC/pysollib/main.py", line 422, in main
    r = pysol_init(app, args)
  File "/PySolFC/pysollib/main.py", line 199, in pysol_init
    app.dataloader = DataLoader(args[0], f)
  File "/PySolFC/pysollib/util.py", line 136, in __init__
    str(filenames))
OSError: pysol.py: DataLoader could not find ('html/license.html',)

Do I need to generate some HTML before I can run the app?

[shlomif]

Thanks for the clarification. I'm trying to run the app, but I get the following error:

➜  PySolFC git:(master) ✗ python pysol.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "pysol.py", line 41, in <module>
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
  File "/PySolFC/pysollib/main.py", line 422, in main
    r = pysol_init(app, args)
  File "/PySolFC/pysollib/main.py", line 199, in pysol_init
    app.dataloader = DataLoader(args[0], f)
  File "/PySolFC/pysollib/util.py", line 136, in __init__
    str(filenames))
OSError: pysol.py: DataLoader could not find ('html/license.html',)

Do I need to generate some HTML before I can run the app?

Hi!

Try typing gmake rules as specified in the README.md (where gmake is GNU make ). You may need to install other data files too.

[megandalster]

Pysolfc 2.10.1 won't start up on MacOS Mojave. Instead it restarts my mac. When I go back in, I need to force quit (kill) Pysolfc, or it will repeat this behavior.

[shlomif]

Pysolfc 2.10.1 won't start up on MacOS Mojave. Instead it restarts my mac. When I go back in, I need to force quit (kill) Pysolfc, or it will repeat this behavior.

Hi!

That sounds strange. Can you try running pysol from the command line using https://docs.python.org/3/library/trace.html e.g:

python3 -m trace --trace pysol.py |& tee ~/pysol-trace.txt

It may be a macOS bug though.

[cardset]

OSError: pysol.py: DataLoader could not find ('html/license.html',)

Seems you tried running Pysol from source code.

I had the same issue. It is because the licence file is in "..html-src/licence.html" Rename the folder and it could work.

More issues may come because images are in "*master/data/images" but source looks for "master/images"

cardset are normally in "..data/YourCardset" but source looks for "master/YourCardset".

All in all very confusing.