WARNING: generateZipSet: Could not find 'gui-icons.dat'!

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WARNING: generateZipSet: Could not find 'gui-icons.dat'!

Post by legluondunet »

Hello,
when I launch ScummVM, I can see in terminal this error message:

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WARNING: generateZipSet: Could not find 'gui-icons.dat'!
Could you tell me what that means? Is it very annoying that it could not find this file?
Thank you for your help.
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Re: WARNING: generateZipSet: Could not find 'gui-icons.dat'!

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Looks like you built the ScummVM by yourself. Point themepath to your gui/themes directory of ScummVM.


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Re: WARNING: generateZipSet: Could not find 'gui-icons.dat'!

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I downloaded and compiled today's git.
I launch scummvm directly from git folder.
I already set themes path to /scummvm/gui/themes/ but error message is still present.
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Re: WARNING: generateZipSet: Could not find 'gui-icons.dat'!

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I joined tree of my scummvm folder, you can see gui-icons.dat is at the right place.
In config file scummvm.ini I have:
themepath=/run/media/legluondunet/JEUX/ScummVM/scummvm/gui/themes

So why it doesn't find the file?
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Re: WARNING: generateZipSet: Could not find 'gui-icons.dat'!

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I get this error (and also the missing themes, and shaders), if I built scummvm on Linux with a simple configure and a make command, and then directly run "./scummvm".

What I will typically do, which seems to resolve this issue as well is:

1. Run configure with a prefix to indicate where you will "install" scummvm (which will include its distribution files, like themes, shaders, icons and such). My commands look like this:

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mkdir -p ./scummvmDist
make clean && ./configure --enable-all-engines --disable-debug --enable-release --prefix=$(pwd)/scummvmDist
Obviously, you only have to create (mkdir) the output folder (scummvmDist) once, unless you delete it explicitly for some reason.

2. After configure completes successfully, run make to build ScummVM:

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make -j$(nproc)
3. Run make install, after make completes successfully:

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make install
4. Switch to the output folder (scummvmDist) where ScummVM got installed and run it from there. Like so:

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cd scummvmDist
bin/scummvm
That's it. You should no longer have the missing files issue, and you don't have to explicitly set a theme path or anything, at least not for the default stuff.
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Re: WARNING: generateZipSet: Could not find 'gui-icons.dat'!

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Very nice method, works as expected, thank you very much Praetorian .
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