Newbie's problem : can't launch the game

[bastus]

Hello,
I'm trying to play to Maelstrom NH, but have probably done a basic mistake.
After several hours of researches about "seadogs.c", i give up and ask for a little help.
Im runing on Win10 / 64
I followed the Maelstrom_setup.pdf the best i could.

But i'm getting some errors:

1) Trying to run the game gives me this message:

Fail to create program. Check the ini file or program script files for syntax errors

2) This from the error log:

COMPILE ERROR - file: seadogs.c; line: 4
Can't load file: storm-engine\layers.h


3) system log is also problematic

I put also my start.ini file. I copied it from the exemple given by Maelstrom download.


Thanks a lot.

 

[AkrimalS]

Hello,
I'm trying to play to Maelstrom NH, but have probably done a basic mistake.
After several hours of researches about "seadogs.c", i give up and ask for a little help.
Im runing on Win10 / 64
I followed the Maelstrom_setup.pdf the best i could.

But i'm getting some errors:

1) Trying to run the game gives me this message:

Fail to create program. Check the ini file or program script files for syntax errors

2) This from the error log:

COMPILE ERROR - file: seadogs.c; line: 4
Can't load file: storm-engine\layers.h


3) system log is also problematic

I put also my start.ini file. I copied it from the exemple given by Maelstrom download.


Thanks a lot.

Did you use this video to install the game? This can also be done through the itch application by downloading the engine to a folder, and then the game itself there.

 

[bastus]

Did you use this video to install the game? This can also be done through the itch application by downloading the engine to a folder, and then the game itself there.

Thank you very much for you advices and link.
I just tried this video, but got exactly the same answer from logs.
It seems that some files could be involved: seadogs.c (error log) or dialogsource.txt (system log)
System log writtes also about storm engine. I don't know if it's normal because we run on maelstrom.
But i really lack of knowledges to understand what is happening.

 

[AkrimalS]

Thank you very much for you advices and link.
I just tried this video, but got exactly the same answer from logs.
It seems that some files could be involved: seadogs.c (error log) or dialogsource.txt (system log)
System log writtes also about storm engine. I don't know if it's normal because we run on maelstrom.
But i really lack of knowledges to understand what is happening.

Perhaps @Mirsaneli will help you. He works on this version and often sits on discord.

Join the PiratesAhoy! Discord Server!

Founded in 2003, the PiratesAhoy! community is centered around the Sea Dogs video game series and adjacent pirate games. | 1760 members

discord.gg

 

[bastus]

Perhaps @Mirsaneli will help you. He works on this version and often sits on discord.

Join the PiratesAhoy! Discord Server!

Founded in 2003, the PiratesAhoy! community is centered around the Sea Dogs video game series and adjacent pirate games. | 1760 members

discord.gg

Thanks for the advice. I'm recorded on Discord and will go immediately.
But trying to launch, i saw an interesting thing. I put here, may be someone could give an advice.

error.log calls for the string 4 of the file seadogs.c
i found it and erase the "#" in front, to include layers.h.
The error.log called then for the next string (events.h) with a new error.
I followed this path about 10 times in other files (globals.c, AIFort.c, BattleInterface.c ande Interface.c) and included some strings.

But now, i'm blocked again. error.log says:

COMPILE ERROR - file: seadogs.c; line: 107
Can't load file: event_handler

And this string still doesn't work if i erase the "#".

Best regards

 

[bastus]

Topic closed. I mixed severals files in a bad way. Everything is working fine.