Can't properly export game for F-Droid

Ertain

For the past two weeks, I have been trying to get my game to build/export so that it can be included on F-Droid (the YAML file used to build the game can be found here). For the most part, the engine builds, and can sort of export an Android binary. In the build process, it starts to export the binary, only to choke on some error. Can anyone help me in pinpointing where the exact error is? From the looks of the logs, it starts packing the binary, but then gives an error about not being able to find the export templates. If anyone's wondering, the original Github repo for the game can be found here. Also, I'm using version 3.3.3 of the engine.

Calinou

Out of curiosity, why are you preforming this change in the YAML? Bypassing errors doesn't sound good.

 sed -i "s|valid = false|valid = true|" ./platform/android/export/export.cpp

Ertain

I had based the YAML on this other project. While that other project was for version 3.2.3 of the engine, I thought that most of the code would suffice. Do you suggest that I take it out?

duane

You could try running the processes it's listing locally, especially the actual export line. I notice several errors looking for import files. Is that a fatal error when you're exporting from the command line?

I can't find the export_presets.cfg.f-droid file, as I look through the git clone. Is that being generated during the build process?

Does the compiled version of godot you're creating expect the templates in 3.3.3.stable? I've had problems figuring out the directory it wants before.

I'd love to be able to submit projects to f-droid, so I'm very interested in this.

Ertain

Duane, when I tried exporting it locally, I did not have any errors when importing files. I did encounter some problems when specifying the path of the export templates, though. I resolved that by bundling them inside the build directory (really the directory of the game) when the game is exported. BTW, the export templates are first built, then moved to the game directory.

As for the "export_presets.cfg.f-droid" file, you can find it here in the Github repo of the game.

With respect to the expected location of the templates when the executable is built, I don't know whether it expects them to be in a directory named "3.3.3.stable". That was one of my suspicions why the built executable couldn't find the export templates in the first place.

Ertain

This is one of the errors that came up in the build:

ERROR: get_dependencies: Cannot open file 'res://.import/ping_pong_8bit_beeep.wav-43de947304ee474a3e233d9d7e2634a8.sample'. At: core/io/resource_format_binary.cpp:1048. ERROR: get_dependencies: Cannot open file 'res://.import/ping_pong_8bit_peeeeeep.wav-8a1b2f41f21917b956903be484ca31ce.sample'. At: core/io/resource_format_binary.cpp:1048. ERROR: get_dependencies: Cannot open file 'res://.import/ping_pong_8bit_plop.wav-e4f5b80fe7ca0f988b36b1d861607ecb.sample'. At: core/io/resource_format_binary.cpp:1048. ERROR: get_dependencies: Cannot open file 'res://.import/round_end.wav-dd33be60e2de9e9688d481412221d714.sample'. At: core/io/resource_format_binary.cpp:1048. Godot Engine v3.3.3.stable.custom_build.b973f997f - https://godotengine.org

I can't tell what is causing this (I have tried reimporting the sound files. But that didn't change anything). TBH, I'm going to close this merge proposal, as it's taking too much of my time.