Post your GCCG questions here!

[Elrohir]

I have distract the GCCG-core-0.9.3.tgz file. What shall I do now? I can't find any application, and no one plays SDA. 

[Kralik]

I have distract the GCCG-core-0.9.3.tgz file. What shall I do now? I can't find any application, and no one plays SDA.  

You extracted the file? Here's the general procedure:

Run:

1) Install LOTR.bat (DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP! Many do... )
2) Install LOTR Cards.bat

If you have SdA decks you want to use, copy them to decks\Lotr

Now run Lotr.bat and find someone to teach you the interface!

[Kralik]

I have no idea, ask your school network admins, they're the only one to blame here.

Likely you are not allowed to connect to that port/IP/service.
Aren't you supposed to attend a course rather than playing cards online ?

If they are smart, they probably block random ports other than HTTP, etc. Keeps everything more secure and helps stop torrents. Good for them!

[Elrohir]

Where do I get Lotr.bat from?

[Kralik]

OK, we got the sdl-net thing figured out (we had to configure Fink to use the unstable branch, and then it showed the sdl-net library), but now we're having some trouble getting GCCG installed and launching the LOTR module.

We were able to get all the libraries set up, and get GCCG compiled and installed (the binary version). We then installed the lotr module with no error messages, but when we tried to launch the Lotr module using the ./Lotr command, we got an error message:

Nubility:~/gccg test$ ./Lotr
./Lotr: line 31: ./ccg_client: cannot execute binary file
Nubility:~/gccg test$

We tried re-installing GCCG, but got the same problem. We then tried using the alternative method to compile GCCG ("./gccg_package install client fonts source", then "make all"), and got error messages (I have the terminal script, but it's pretty long, so I'm not attaching it here -- I can provide it if necessary, though).

Any ideas on how we can get the program working? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

Did you ever manage to get this working? I know that GCCG has worked on Mac in the past... It would be great to get some binaries up somewhere to avoid all of the hassle. If only I had a Mac to look at (I used to have one)... perhaps you could PM me the errors.

There's always Lackey too if you want to play on a Mac. It's not as good as GCCG, and the LotR plugin is a bit dated, but it works...

[Kralik]

Where do I get Lotr.bat from?

It should be in the same directory with Install LOTR, Install LOTR Cards, etc. The GCCG directory -- after you've extracted the file. But wait - you're running Windows, right? You probably downloaded the wrong file. It should end in ZIP. Go to the main site (http://gccg.sf.net) and click on WINDOWS in the left column. The filename should be gccg_install.zip. Or... here's a direct link.

[Elrohir]

I am running Linux and I have the following files in the ahm... "Main File":

*decks
*doc
*graphics
*lib
*scripts
*sounds
*tools
*xml
COPYING
games.dat
gccg_package
NEWS

[Kralik]

I am running Linux.

Aha! Well, let's see. Here are you install instructions.

You've got it trickier than the Windows users, but you should be able to work typing in those commands. Probably best to make the gccg directory on your desktop... are you familiar with running terminal commands?

[Elrohir]

I did as you said. But I have problems with running it with ./lotr

[Kralik]

I did as you said. But I have problems with running it with ./lotr

Is it case-sensitive? Maybe ./Lotr? What error(S) are you getting?

Each game module has a startup script with the same name as the module, with capitalized first letter.

[Elrohir]

Thank you so far!    Kralik, you are our brain!

if I type ./Lotr it says:
./cgg-client: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL:net-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory root@:/home/.../gccg#

[Kralik]

Do you have SDL installed?

Install SDL, SDL_image, SDL_net, SDL_ttf and SDL_mixer using your distribution's package manager (i.e. apt, yum, yast etc...)

Which Linux distribution are you using?

[wlk]

OK, we got the sdl-net thing figured out (we had to configure Fink to use the unstable branch, and then it showed the sdl-net library), but now we're having some trouble getting GCCG installed and launching the LOTR module.

We were able to get all the libraries set up, and get GCCG compiled and installed (the binary version). We then installed the lotr module with no error messages, but when we tried to launch the Lotr module using the ./Lotr command, we got an error message:

Nubility:~/gccg test$ ./Lotr
./Lotr: line 31: ./ccg_client: cannot execute binary file
Nubility:~/gccg test$

We tried re-installing GCCG, but got the same problem. We then tried using the alternative method to compile GCCG ("./gccg_package install client fonts source", then "make all"), and got error messages (I have the terminal script, but it's pretty long, so I'm not attaching it here -- I can provide it if necessary, though).

Any ideas on how we can get the program working? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

Did you ever manage to get this working? I know that GCCG has worked on Mac in the past... It would be great to get some binaries up somewhere to avoid all of the hassle. If only I had a Mac to look at (I used to have one)... perhaps you could PM me the errors.

There's always Lackey too if you want to play on a Mac. It's not as good as GCCG, and the LotR plugin is a bit dated, but it works...

I know some are using it on OSX for Metw.
If you get me an account on that computer, I can build it for you.

[Elrohir]

 

It works now, I think. But something does not work with the pictures. Cards do all have the texts, but pictures are missing.

Thank you for your help! I will try my first game at gccg now...

[Kralik]

It works now, I think. But something does not work with the pictures. Cards do all have the texts, but pictures are missing.

Thank you for your help! I will try my first game at gccg now...

You have to download the pictures. It's a single file to run on Windows, not sure about Linux... wlk?

Elrohir, if you have access to Windows, you could run the script and then copy the card images over to Linux. Eh?

EDIT: See if this works:

./gccg_package install lotr-cards-*