How can I actually run nxengine-evo with multiple languages?

[crocket]

The instruction on https://github.com/nxengine/nxengine-evo/wiki/Running is incomplete.

• Somehow, it always assumes that everything is in /usr/share/nxengine. Can it run somewhere else?
• I want to run Cave Story in multiple languages including english and japanese.

[isage]

Languages are included, you don't need to have different cave story versions (see buildscripts for appimage, for example)
Yes, it assumes that data is in /usr/share/nxengine.
You can build it with PORTABLE (assumes that data is in same folder as binary) or with custom DATADIR.
Or just use appimage/snap, it includes all data.

[crocket]

Figuring out the necessary components to build a gentoo linux package for nxengine-evo from flakpak build script was quite challenging without the right instructions.

I needed

• https://github.com/nxengine/nxengine-evo/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz
• https://www.cavestory.org/downloads/cavestoryen.zip
• https://github.com/nxengine/translations/releases/download/v1.14/all.zip

After building nxengine-evo, I copied cavestoryen.zip/data, cavestoryen.zip/Doukutsu.exe, and all.zip/data to nxengine-evo source directory and executed build/nxextract and make install.

This should be documented properly for linux distribution package maintainers.

Here is the gentoo linux package for nxengine-evo-2.6.5

# Copyright 2018-2021 Gentoo Authors
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

EAPI=7

inherit cmake

DESCRIPTION="rewrite of the Doukutsu Monogatari(Cave Story)"
HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/nxengine/nxengine-evo"
SRC_URI="https://github.com/nxengine/nxengine-evo/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz
	https://www.cavestory.org/downloads/cavestoryen.zip
	https://github.com/nxengine/translations/releases/download/v1.14/all.zip -> ${PN}-translations-1.14.zip"
SLOT="0"
LICENSE="GPL-3"
KEYWORDS="~amd64"

DEPEND="
	media-libs/libpng:=
	virtual/jpeg
	media-libs/libsdl2:=
	media-libs/sdl2-mixer:=
	media-libs/sdl2-image:=
"
BDEPEND="app-arch/unzip"

src_install() {
	cp -r "${WORKDIR}/CaveStory/data" . || die
	cp "${WORKDIR}/CaveStory/Doukutsu.exe" . || die
	cp -r "${WORKDIR}/data" . || die
	"${S}_build"/nxextract || die
	cmake_src_install
}

[xordspar0]

See also for reference the Arch AUR package and my personal Alpine package. Now that you mention it, those versions don't include multiple languages. I will probably update them to do that.

[crocket]

I think this issue is prematurely closed. The setup instructions should be documented somewhere.

[isage]

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