linux compatibility

[astrale-sharp]

Howdy!

This should be enough to make it posix compatible! this should also work for your blender port if you used soulstruct directly in it.

soulstruct/soulstruct/utilities/kernel32.py

Line 10 in 8ab7c70

kernel32 = c.WinDLL("kernel32", use_last_error=True)

The real problem is this line

• WinDLL doesn't exist on linux but kernel32 is essential to soulstruct
• wenv (using wine) is not capable of installing tkinter for some reason

[astrale-sharp]

I'm getting much farther by replacing ctypes by zugbruecke.ctypes

However it crashes because it can't find

which is indeed not on my computer? 🤔 i also just checked my files and unpacked for modding dark souls so that shouldn't be the problem

[astrale-sharp]

Using the last version of UnpackDarkSouls for modding seems to have fixed that, I'm running a few test before updating this PR but I'm optimistic

[astrale-sharp]

wine9.0 fails on the latest UnpackDarkSoulsForModding.exe version for me: here's what I did

clone https://github.com/HotPocketRemix/UnpackDarkSoulsForModding
put the .py files in my DATA directory (PTDE)
install pip2
pip2 install colorama numpy
run python -m unpack_dark_souls_for_modding

[astrale-sharp]

Now after a hopefully correct unpacking, starting the gui I get this error

With a full log

ERROR :: soulstruct-gui/soulstruct_gui/base/window.py ::  271 :: Fatal internal error encountered. Aborting startup.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "soulstruct-gui/soulstruct_gui/base/window.py", line 258, in __init__
    self.project = self.PROJECT_CLASS(project_path, with_window=self, game_root=game_root)
  File "soulstruct-gui/soulstruct_gui/base/core.py", line 131, in __init__
    success = self.create_new_project(with_window=with_window, game_root=game_root)
  File "soulstruct-gui/soulstruct_gui/base/core.py", line 943, in create_new_project
    save_func()
  File "soulstruct-gui/soulstruct_gui/base/core.py", line 498, in save_Params
    params.write_json_directory(
  File "soulstruct-gui/soulstruct/base/params/gameparambnd.py", line 248, in write_json_directory
    json_stem = self.PARAM_NICKNAMES[param_stem]
KeyError: 'N:\\FRPG\\data\\INTERROOT_win32\\param\\GameParam\\EquipParamWeapon'

so.. time to investigate!

[astrale-sharp]

printing self.PARAM_NICKNAMES in this context yield a dictionary like structure containing something that resembles our problematic key

{
   # ...
    'EquipParamWeapon': 'Weapons',
   # ...
}

My first guess would be that os splitting of paths is confusing python because it's receiving windows path separators but the splitting function used on linux system doesn't strip them correctly

[astrale-sharp]

I hacked above using .split("\")[-1]

Now it crashes on
soulstruct.utilities.binary.BinaryFieldValueError: Field '_signature' read value b'EVD\x00' is not an asserted value: (b'EVD',)

starting to feel in over my head

[astrale-sharp]

Before that here are the warnings I'm getting

WARNING :: base/events/emevd/core.py ::  365 :: m13_02_00_00: Missing 'Object | Character | Region' entity ID: 1322600
*
WARNING :: base/game_types/game_enums_manager.py ::  249 :: Ignoring game enum type `Boxes` in module '/home/astrale/Bureau/moddingDS/enums/m11_00_00_00_enums.py`, as its type does not match any of the `VALID_GAME_TYPES` specified for this `GameEnumsManager`.
*
WARNING :: base/events/emevd/core.py ::  365 :: m11_00_00_00: Missing 'Any' entity ID: 1101703
*
WARNING :: base/events/emevd/core.py ::  365 :: m11_00_00_00: Missing 'Object | Character | Region' entity ID: 1102080
*
  ERROR :: soulstruct_gui/__main__.py ::  260 :: Error occurred in soulstruct.__main__: 'LightBank'

the * means they are repeated a lot with other values