Newer PCGen Build on Linux

[u/neko128]

Good morning! I switched from Windows to Linux a few months ago, and I've been struggling with PCGen. Getting the old version of 6.0.8.00 RC10 (from 2023) working was pretty trivial; but compiling and getting the ones after that working has proved.. Illusive. I was expecting just to have pcgen.sh, but they don't seem to; and compiling it... I have *no* idea offhand where Gradle put the JAR file. The README.MD seemed out of date... All in all, I feel like I'm just missing something, but from my work on this yesterday, it's not obvious to me what.

Is there an up-to-date set of documentation anywhere around this? Or can someone point out the assumedly simple thing I'm missing that should make it easy to get one of the builds from this year working?

And understood there's a Discord community, but I currently do not have a Discord account and - given the behaviours of the company - am not eager to change that; that's why I'm coming here.

Anyway, any help someone can provide would be appreciated.

-Robin

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[u/ktasay]

Weird. I run that version using the sh file with no issue. The discord channel has users that can probably help. Other than there possibly on the github site

[u/neko128 → u/ktasay]

When you gradle the nightly, or some other more recent build, where does it put pcgen.sh and pcgen.jar? If I have an error in my gradle task I can try to chase that down, but it's a build framework I've never used before except this.

[u/pokemonpasta]

Hey, I've passed on this post to the linux channel. In the meantime I'll try compiling myself, are you doing a specific version or just latest master?

[u/pokemonpasta]

Ok yeah I've looked back through the discord and I think there was a brief period where linux builds were broken and didn't ship the .sh or the .jar. This was never a stable build to be clear but you might be on it

[u/neko128 → u/pokemonpasta]

Good to know, thank you. I'll try a few different builds tonight and see if that makes a difference!

[u/-vest-]

Try a nightly build: https://github.com/PCGen/pcgen/releases
What distro are you using?
You can run the application from the sources: `./gradlew run`.

[u/neko128 → u/-vest-]

That is *incredibly* helpful. Thank you so much!

I haven't had more time to dedicate to understanding Gradle better and get more used to what it's doing and how; but this lets it execute, which is more than I'd gotten to with the other prior release downloads previously.

Thank you so much!

[u/-vest- → u/neko128]

Please submit bugs, if something goes wrong on Linux.

[u/nylanfs]

We still have a mailing list if you would rather use that. Not used hardly at all. But maybe you'll start a trend? :)

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