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Executor hang on linux

Open lighth7015 opened this issue 5 years ago • 10 comments

Opening the file browser from a fresh compile of Executor, apparently hangs the UI

lighth7015 avatar May 17 '20 19:05 lighth7015

Hmm, some details please...

Are you starting build/executor (the Qt backend)? How about the other backends that you might or might not have built (build/executor-x, build/executor-sdl, build/executor-sdl2)?

What "linux" are you running on? Are you on X11 or on Wayland?

"hangs the UI" - so you executor gets stuck and doesn't respond to mouse clicks? What is visible on the screen at this point?

autc04 avatar May 17 '20 21:05 autc04

how do I build the other backend? also, apparently resource forks have issues?

lighth7015 avatar May 19 '20 14:05 lighth7015

The others are built automatically if the required libraries are installed (see the README for a list of prerequisites).

I hereby repeat my questions.

"apparently resource forks have issues" - what do you mean by issues?

autc04 avatar May 19 '20 19:05 autc04

I am trying to install Aladdin's Stuffit, but apparently it can't find the resource fork.

lighth7015 avatar May 19 '20 19:05 lighth7015

So you got past the hang? ??? ?? ?

What do you see on your screen that makes you say "apparently it can't find the resource fork"? What did you do to get to that point? etc. etc.

autc04 avatar May 19 '20 19:05 autc04

Sorry, I have several issues all kind of relating to one another. I assumed an ArchLinux package (from their AUR repository) I installed for Executor came from here; apparently it didn't, and the version that builds from AUR hangs when you try and open vol:. I compiled yours after posting that (after some more research) and that seems to be a non-issue now. However I still get this message when I try and install Stuffit,

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lighth7015 avatar May 19 '20 19:05 lighth7015

Apologies for the muddled responses btw!

lighth7015 avatar May 19 '20 19:05 lighth7015

I wasn't even aware of that AUR package, I don't use arch myself. At first glance it looks like it builds from the current master version from my git here, but then I have no experience with arch and AUR, and therefore I might be wrong.

Anyway, the dialog box you're getting probably means your copy of StuffIt doesn't have a resource fork in one of the formats that executor currently understands.

As there are no real resource forks on Linux, Mac emulators have to rely on special formats or conventions to store resource forks as regular files. Executor should be able to read

  • AppleDouble
    • StuffIt and a separate file called ._Stuffit.
    • StuffIt and a separate file called %Stuffit
  • Basilisk-style resrouce forks:
    • Stuffit and a separate files of the same name in subfolders called .rsrc and .finf
  • AppleSingle files

It then depends on how you are downloading/unpacking StuffIt.

autc04 avatar May 19 '20 19:05 autc04

I have %StuffitDeluxe 5.6 Install (and just made a ._StuffItDeluxe 5.6 Install file, neither appear to work. :/

lighth7015 avatar May 19 '20 20:05 lighth7015

I tried both AppleDouble forms and the Basilisk-style form using the following workflow and all of them resulted in a red-circled question-mark icon that wouldn't run, so a well-documented workflow for this would really help.

  1. Mount the ISO of my Stuffit Deluxe 4.5 CD using hmount <PATH> from hfsutils.
  2. Verify I see the expected files with hls
  3. Extract the files as MacBinary II with hcopy -m '*' .
  4. Convert the MacBinary to .info/.data/.rsrc split files using macunpack -3 <file> from macutils
  5. Rename as appropriate

ssokolow avatar May 12 '21 22:05 ssokolow