GameMaker Studio 2 .deb running on Manjaro

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Has anyone managed to get GMS2 running on Manjaro? I saw someone in the initial Ubuntu IDE announcement forum get it working but they left no tutorial and they haven’t been online since last year. I tried using debtap and it installs, but it doesn’t open and I can’t make any sense of the errors it gives.

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IDE Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'Core.CoreOS.System.Gtk' threw an exception. ---> System.DllNotFoundException: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 assembly:<unknown assembly> type:<unknown type> member:(null)
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) Core.CoreOS.System.Gtk.AtomIntern(string,bool)
  at Core.CoreOS.System.Gtk..cctor () [0x00000] in <dc529e30ce374b4286b8969071785d8e>:0 
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
  at Core.CoreOS.System.SystemPlatformSDL2.CreateWindow (System.String _title, System.Int32 _width, System.Int32 _height, Core.CoreOS.Graphics.WindowState initialState) [0x00310] in <dc529e30ce374b4286b8969071785d8e>:0 
  at Core.CoreOS.Graphics.Windowing.CreateWindow (System.String _title, System.Int32 _width, System.Int32 _height, Core.CoreOS.Graphics.WindowState initialState) [0x00000] in <dc529e30ce374b4286b8969071785d8e>:0 
  at YoYoStudio.Graphics.Desktop..ctor (System.Int32 _width, System.Int32 _height, System.String _title, Core.CoreOS.Graphics.WindowState initialState) [0x00006] in <1fe772d9841542fa878dede1b19e5475>:0 
  at YoYoStudio.Graphics.DesktopManager.Add (System.Int32 _width, System.Int32 _height, System.String _title, Core.CoreOS.Graphics.WindowState initialState) [0x00000] in <1fe772d9841542fa878dede1b19e5475>:0 
  at YoYoStudio.GUI.WindowManager.AddDesktopEmpty (System.Int32 _width, System.Int32 _height, System.String _title, Core.CoreOS.Graphics.WindowState initialState, System.Boolean _visible, YoYoStudio.GUI.DPIDelegate _dpicallback) [0x00006] in <dab8465099d84ba6bb49c0242c4b3e71>:0 
  at YoYoStudio.GUI.WindowManager.AddDesktop (System.Int32 _width, System.Int32 _height, System.String _title, System.Boolean _bAddEmptyWorkspace, Core.CoreOS.Graphics.WindowState initialState, YoYoStudio.GUI.DPIDelegate _dpicallback) [0x0001b] in <dab8465099d84ba6bb49c0242c4b3e71>:0 
  at YoYoStudio.IDE.Initialise (System.String[] _args, System.Int32 _initialWidth, System.Int32 _initialHeight) [0x00ae9] in <dab8465099d84ba6bb49c0242c4b3e71>:0 
  at YoYoStudio.IDE.Execute (System.String[] _args, System.Int32 _initialWidth, System.Int32 _initialHeight) [0x00038] in <dab8465099d84ba6bb49c0242c4b3e71>:0 
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Break in FatalErrorWarning (IDE:3752)
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PrimitiveBuilder was not called finished correctly, you MUST call End() src: Scene::DrawGrid

If anyone has managed to get it working or has any idea what this means, please let me know.

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The error looks like something is lacking, and the missing part looks like something that is provided by gtk2 and/or lib32-gtk2. Your profile mentions KDE, Do you have these installed? (they are also part of steam-native)

Or a older version of these packages is needed, the SDK-FAQ mentions Ubuntu 20.04 as a base, this could be the issue since it is 2 years ago.

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$ pamac search --files libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0                                       ✔ 
/usr/lib32/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 is owned by lib32-gtk2
/usr/lib32/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.33 is owned by lib32-gtk2
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 is owned by gtk2
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.33 is owned by gtk2

Check if the packages gtk2 and lib32-gtk2 are installed.

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Yep I’ve got both those packages installed so they should be there. I could try reinstalling them but otherwise I guess GMS is having trouble locating them?

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I was able to find each of those files in the directories shown so I don’t think it’s an issue of them being missing. Not sure why GameMaker isn’t able to locate it.

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Ok I tried it myself… pretty simple solution…

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 mono GameMakerStudio.exe

I guess, since it is strictly a ubuntu package and uses mono, the paths are fixed.

The path on ubuntu:

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.33

Ubuntu – File list of package libgtk2.0-0/jammy/amd64

So well, you see the difference. Workaround is pre-loading the lib.

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Hell yeah, worked like a charm! Tysm.
Do you happen to know how to add that to the .desktop shortcut? I tried replacing the Exec= line with that command but it doesn’t seem to work.

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Exec=env LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 mono GameMakerStudio.exe
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Perfect. Thank you so much for the help man :slight_smile:

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