cannot make canonical path: No such file or directory

[ztianyang]

SuperTux version: commit 96682c1
System information: Arch Linux

Expected behavior

The game runs after compiling.

Actual behavior

The game doesn't run at all.

Steps to reproduce actual behavior

1. Download the latest source code archive from https://download.supertux.org and extract it.
2. Compile and run the game.

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DENABLE_DISCORD=ON
make -j$(nproc)
./supertux2

Additional debugging information

$ ./supertux2
[FATAL] /home/tianyang/games/supertux/builds/supertux_nightly/src/supertux/main.cpp:746 Unexpected exception: filesystem error: cannot make canonical path: No such file or directory [/home/tianyang/games/supertux/builds/supertux_nightly/build/data]

There is no data directory in the build directory

$ ls
CMakeCache.txt           external            physfs                   supertux2
CMakeFiles               libLibPartioZip.a   physfs_project-prefix    supertux2.desktop
cmake_install.cmake      libLibSavePNG.a     SDL2_ttf                 tinygettext
config.h                 libLibSexp.a        SDL2_ttf_project-prefix  tinygettext_project-prefix
CPackConfig.cmake        libsupertux2_lib.a  squirrel                 version.h
CPackSourceConfig.cmake  Makefile            squirrel_project-prefix

[ztianyang]

I have to create the data directory manually for the game to run.

[mrkubax10]

You are supposed to run game from within directory containing data folder or by specifying it using --datadir command line argument.

[Vankata453]

You are supposed to run game from within directory containing data folder or by specifying it using --datadir command line argument.

Perhaps the error message could provide this info as a potential solution?

[tobbi]

Why bother? We could create a data directory if it doesn't exist

[tobbi]

Please try again once the next nightly package is built