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Distribute a zenilib Game

Previous Step: Build a Game

Archive It

• Instructions vary by development environment.

• Windows

  1. Ensure that you've built your game in Release mode, per the instructions to build a game.
  2. Run multi-clean_sh.bat.
  3. Copy your zenilib/ folder to the name you eventually want to use for your release, and switch to the copy.
  4. Run multi-clean_sh.bat --build=all.
  5. Delete everything but:
     • assets/
     • bin/x32
     • docs/
     • jni/application
     • Play game x32.exe (can be renamed)
  6. zip up your copy of zenilib/.
  7. Test Play game x32.exe one last time.

• Mac OS X

  1. Check that game.app/Contents/Info.plist is the version of Mac OS X you want to target. If it is 10.8 and you want your game to run on 10.7, rebuild with ./multi-build_sh.bat --macosx=10.7 release. If you're content to build for your native version of Mac OS X, just run ./multi-build_sh.bat release.
  2. Run ./multi-clean_sh.bat.
  3. Rename game.app.
  4. zip it up.
  5. Test it one last time.

• GCC

  1. Ensure that you've built your game in Release mode, per the instructions to build a game. You absolutely must have the LSB Linux App Checker and the LSB Software Development Kit (SDK) installed to distribute binaries for any distribution other than your own. Note, however, that you will have to ignore errors from the broken lsbappchk 4.1.3-1.
  2. Run ./multi-clean_sh.bat.
  3. Copy your zenilib/ folder to the name you eventually want to use for your release, and switch to the copy.
  4. Run ./multi-clean_sh.bat --build=all.
  5. Delete everything but:
     • assets/
     • lib/x32
     • lib/x64
     • docs/
     • jni/application
     • game_x32 (easiest to build on a 32-bit OS, can be renamed)
     • game_x64 (easiest to build on a 64-bit OS, can be renamed)
  6. zip up your copy of zenilib/.
  7. Test everything one last time.

Note

It is possible to do a unified release by dropping the files for Windows and Linux into the Mac OS X app bundle. game.app/Contents/ already contains an assets folder. Adding in the missing files for other operating systems is fairly trivial using the above file lists as a guide. I recommend you do the merge in Linux or Mac OS X rather than in Windows, or permissions will be unusual.

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