Might want to add that you need to copy gosu.so to your ruby installation's lib directory in order to use Gosu in ruby. This could alternatively be added to the Makefile with the install target.

The make error above is a result of compiling Gosu on Ubuntu Feisty. To fix the error I added #include <boost/none.hpp> to the LargeImageData?.hpp file and recompiled with make. More details can be found at http://crunchlife.com/articles/2007/11/20/compiling-the-gosu-game-development-library-on-ubuntu-feisty

Thanks, I fixed and committed this. I'll leave the rather unhandy error message as it is for now though, because there may still be Ubuntu users looking for just this :) Thanks!

Doesn't seem to work with ruby1.9. Reports about missing ruby.h.

Running Ubuntu Gutsy.

Hi, weird, I see nothing specific to Ruby 1.8 in the configure/makefile. Is ruby1.9-dev installed? Can you find ruby.h via locate?

julianraschke: ruby.h was found with locate and ruby1.9-dev was installed, but gosu build process couldn't find it or something

Hi! I'm wondering if a Fedora user can help me. I'm trying to get Gosu to compile on an XO laptop.

When I try to ./configure, i get "lib/cpp fails sanity check" but I have gcc, g++ installed and they are in $PATH. What else could I try?

Thanks!

ah, I needed glibc-headers...

jeremias.kangas: I hope you are still reading this -- Gosu should now work with Ruby 1.9 on Linux. Check out the latest source from SVN and let me know how it works for you! :)

I'm using qmake for just about everything, but I needed some time to get gosu working with qmake. Here's how you do it:

you need the folder structure: gosu_tutorial/src/Tutorial.cpp << from the gosu examples dir

gosu_tutorial/media << from the gosu examples dir

gosu_tutorial/gosu_tutorial.pro << create with contents below

TEMPLATE = app
DEPENDPATH += . include src 
INCLUDEPATH += . include 
INCPATH += $$system(../gosu/gosu-read-only/linux/gosu-config --cxxflags) 
LIBS += ../gosu/gosu-read-only/linux/gosu-config --libs -lgosu 
SOURCES += src/Tutorial.cpp 
HEADERS += 
CONFIG += qt debug_and_release warn_on

CONFIG(debug, debug|release) {

    DESTDIR = debug 

} else {

    DESTDIR = release 

}

now you run "qmake" in that dir

then "make"

then "debug/gosu_tutorial" (or if you used "make release" use "release/gosu_tutorial")

I'll create a windows tutorial for that as soon as I successfully compiled everything on windows

Hey, guys. I'm trying to get gosu installed on Fedora 8. When compiling, I'm getting an error (/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_thread). Seems it can't find libboost_thread. But when I locate libboost_th, I get

/usr/lib/libboost_thread-mt.so
/usr/lib/libboost_thread-mt.so.1.34.1
/usr/lib/libboost_thread-mt.so.3

Any suggestions? Am I missing a library? I can't seem to find any other boost libraries to install, so I'm really not sure.

Well, the -mt suffix means a boost library is compiled with multithread support, which is kind of redundant for Boost Threads. I don't know why some distributions omit this and Fedora doesn't, but if you can just replace -lboost_thread by -lboost_thread-mt, that should fix it :) Not sure how to add a check for this case to the AutoConf? file right now… :(

Thanks, Julian. That fixed it.

For anyone else installing gosu in Fedora 8 (maybe earlier version, as well), I'll just recap the fix.

Run autoconf and ./configure as normal, but before running make, open up the Makefile and change the two libboost_thread references from -lboost_thread to -lboost_thread-mt. Then run make to compile.

AFter compiling you need to move <gosu_direcotry>/linux/gosu.so to /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i386-linux/ (assuming you took the default options when install ruby).

(Note regarding the above comments: The threading has been taken out in 0.7.9 and will come back in 0.8.x, so these libraries aren't relevant or needed right now.)

How can I compile Gosu on a x64 system (Ubuntu)? make stops with an error:

/usr/bin/ld: Math.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `__gxx_personality_v0' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
Math.o: could not read symbols: Bad value

about the ruby.h missing: if you got ruby1.9 installed, you need ruby1.9-dev since gosu will automatically try to use ruby1.9 (the above apt-get line will only install 1.8 and 1.8-dev which will be ignored)

dasgib: see http://code.google.com/p/gosu/issues/detail?id=38

also: like seancribbs said, it would be nice if "make install" actually installed gosu.so in the ruby lib dir…

Using the right paths causes so much trouble that I've actually removed the 'make install' command for now. Maybe it'll come back, but I'd much prefer a binary Linux gem anyway. Of course, it'd be even cooler if the Rakefile could somehow cross-compile all common Linux architectures at once.

For Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Install package "libasound2-plugins" Run "asoundconf set-pulseaudio"