Soldat client dies when run without arguments

[Wuzzy2]

When you start the Soldat client under GNU/Linux without any arguments, the game dies instantly. The only thing that happens is that a window pops up for a split second, then Soldat dies.

There is no message, no error message, warning or anything that could be helpful to guide the user towards a solution.

Soldat version: 078795a

[akiross]

Same problem here. Apparently, the game is compiled in debug mode, but the Debug functions produce no result. Not being expert with Pascal, I did a very very stupid replacement of Debug with writeln and this is the output:

[FS] Portable mode enabled.
[FS] UserDirectory: /home/are/Learning/soldat-nix/soldat/client/build/
[FS] BaseDirectory: /home/are/Learning/soldat-nix/soldat/client/build/
[PhysFS] Initializing system
[PhysFS] Mounting game archive
Game captions not found

Inspecting again with writeln I can see it tries to load the captions from /txt/en_US.UTF-8.mo, but I cannot find any .mo file in the entire repository, so I really don't know how to proceed.

[akiross]

@Wuzzy2 I saw from another issue that you manage to run the game. How did you solve this issue?

[helloer]

Soldat currently doesn't have a GUI so it will exit without -join argument. What you need to do is:

1. Start soldatserver (./soldatserver)
2. Start soldatclient (./soldat -join 127.0.0.1 23073)

[akiross]

Oh, I thought that was a default.
The game crashes, apparently due to access violation in networking code, but at least it's a progress.
Thank you!

[Wuzzy2]

I don't remember what I did, but I believe it was the same that helloer wrote.