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Scribe updates

Date: 5/6/2025
Tags: scribe

Couple of Scribe related things.

Firstly the windows build is a bit broken, in that libpng isn't working out of the box. The fix is to copy the zlib.dll to zlibd1.dll in the folder Scribe is installed to. I will make sure that the build system works better before the next release.

Secondly you may have trouble with opening HTML with the Linux build of Scribe because the default browser (say Firefox) is locked down with snap. Scribe writes the HTML to /tmp and then passes that file:// URI to browser which then doesn't have access to /tmp and shows an error message. If you want to revert to a non-snap version of Firefox you'll need to follow these instructions to install the build from Mozilla themselves. And then it all magically works again.

Comments:

memecode
07/06/2025 10:09am

I've added a DLL dependency check to the install builder script with this change. This will catch dependency errors before I make a release. Now I need to back track into the Lgi dependency builder scripts to find where the libpng library gets it's Zlib from and tweak that.

memecode
07/06/2025 10:45am

And this change seems to fix the libpng dependency to 'zlib.dll' as it should be. I'm getting there... now the installer will build again.

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