fonts/FreeSansBold.otf???

[CheatCat]

I compiled the spring engine from source and get this error:

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Failed to load font: fonts/FreeSansBold.otf

Where do I get that file? Cannot find it anywhere...

[weepee]

You need the ÔÇ£freefontÔÇØ fonts (e.g. ttf-freefont Ubuntu package). Spring seems to run fine with the TTF fonts, so donÔÇÖt worry if you canÔÇÖt get the OTF ones.

[CheatCat]

I did that, still get same error. Do I have recompile?

[liamdawe]

You need the ÔÇ£freefontÔÇØ fonts (e.g. ttf-freefont Ubuntu package). Spring seems to run fine with the TTF fonts, so donÔÇÖt worry if you canÔÇÖt get the OTF ones.

Well if spring is wanting to load an otf font and he doesn't have it...it's still going to give the error isn't it...common sense.

[weepee]

Except if it uses OTF fonts as a fallback when it cant find TTF ones (which I guess is not true anyway)

Actually I was thinking that since IÔÇÖve checked (by the way thatÔÇÖs what I personally use to call ÔÇ£common senseÔÇØ) that there was no OTF fonts on my system nor in the Spring sources. IÔÇÖve just re-checked the sources (common thing again) and obviously IÔÇÖve missed this file: spring_0.82.5.1/cont/fonts/FreeSansBold.otf.

In short, if you donÔÇÖt have the file /usr/local/share/games/spring/fonts/FreeSansBold.otf (assuming default install paths), then something went wrong during compilation or installation.

[liamdawe]

So basically i was right, cheers

[CheatCat]

So... Where do I get the font?

EDIT: Just move FreeSansBold.ttf to where you have installed the other stuff and rename it to FreeSansBold.otf works.

[liamdawe]

What distro are you using?

[CheatCat]

Arch Linux, but I have fixed the problem, see above. :)

[Google_Frog]

Strangely this error is showing up for windows users with stable ZK on spring 91.0.

[Forboding Angel]

And spring 94.1

[dansan]

I have that file in $HOME/.spring/fonts/FreeSansBold.otf
It is identified my "file" as "OpenType font data" and its md5sum is e2296bd805bc307c768024ba0680b10e.

When you use a portable version, it must be in its directory (like spring_94.1_minimal-portable-linux64-static/fonts/FreeSansBold.otf).

[abma]

spring 94.1 doesn't run without installing it.

you've to run "make install" to make it work.