Arch Linux

Update: The actual crash turns out to occur when you start walking (so by using the arrow keys).

Anyone else playing this game on Arch Linux??? ;)

To clarify: the nature of the bug has been determined instantly after it hit the repos and it comes from SDL_mixer (extra/sdl2_mixer in Arch) changing⁽¹⁾ the default backend from libvorbis to std_vorbis⁽²⁾. The problem can currently be trivially circumvented by rebuilding sdl2_mixer with libvorbis as the backend, by using `--disable-music-ogg-stb --enable-music-ogg-vorbis` options in configure invocation.

Due to presence of a clean temporary solution, no reports available yet from other distros, no clear indication⁽³⁾ of which project is at fault (SDL, Hedgewars or Arch), and meatspace turbulence I did not seek to progress beyond determining what’s written above. While no official bug report has been opened yet, #hedgewars@Libera is aware of the situation.

The bug manifests itself much earlier than starting the game engine. Just without a crash. Hedgewars will silently fail to load Vorbis sounds in the menu, rendering it — no pun intended — silent.

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⁽¹⁾ https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL_mixer/releases/tag/release-2.6.1
⁽²⁾ https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/master/stb_vorbis.c
⁽³⁾ A rough and quick test indicated that the std_vorbis backend itself seems to be functional, so it’s not as simple as pointing a finger at the module.

I tested both backends with almost⁽¹⁾ all games in official Arch repos that depend on sdl2_mixer and have Vorbis files. blobwars, singularity, renpy-demos, wesnoth and widelands seem to work. I also managed to play a certainly failing Hedgewars sound in Wesnoth with no error, while Hedgewars failed to play a file from Wesnoth.

This seems to be narrowing the case to Hedgewars code. And code only, as it’s not dependent on its data files. Can someone confirm or deny existence of the bug on another distro with SDL_mixer 2.6.0?
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⁽¹⁾ community/naev being the sole exception due to a conflict between openblas it requires and blas on my system.

Good troubleshooting so far. Definitely seems like it should be reported to hedgewars upstream.

If anyone is wishing to look into that: consider poking around PhysFS bridge on the Pascal side. After talking with upstream, currently it seems the most likely culprit.

Same issue on Manjaro Linux. Disabling audio and music I can play. Waiting for a fix.. :-)

Same issue on Manjaro Linux. Disabling audio and music I can play. Waiting for a fix.. :-)

Hi, I couldn't find an upstream report so I made one: https://issues.hedgewars.org/show_bug.cgi?id=839

nemo has requested⁽¹⁾ a rebuild with `-DBUILD_ENGINE_C=1`. That is supposed to “[fire] off unc0rr's haskell parser that transforms the pascal sources into C files, then compiles with clang” and eliminate Pascal compiler from the view.
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⁽¹⁾ https://issues.hedgewars.org/show_bug.cgi?id=839#c1

A fix is available upstream.⁽¹⁾ That will be included in the 1.0.1 release.
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⁽¹⁾ https://hg.hedgewars.org/hedgewars-draft/rev/fcea0f51d94f

Applied the patch in hedgewars 1.0.0-329 and verified that it fixes the audio issue for me. Please give it a try.

Coming back here because I just noticed that Hedgewars works again on Arch! Thank you!! :)

Thanks, Felix. Seems to be working here (1.0.0-330).