[Andrew]

Hey,

It sounds like your trying to run 'php build-update.bat'.

If you're on Windows, try these steps:

1) Download (again, if you've been editing the script files) the package builder on the left

2) Unzip it

3) With PHP installed; open a command prompt window via Start->Run type 'cmd' [Enter]

4) Change directory using 'cd' to where you unzipped the files

5) Type: build-update

You should see this text appear:

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[ryguy222]

Well I decided to try building these updates on one of my Linux VPS systems (that I use for web hosting services)

Is it possible to build windows packages on a linux system? (paticularly cent os)

This time it works (I never liked php + windows >_<)

HOWEVER, I get a could not find package 'tf2'- did you add it to packages.txt?

And it is in packages.txt, and packages.txt is readable.

I've tried
Orangebox
Orange-box
TF2
TF2 Orangebox
TF2 Orange-box
TF
TF Orange-Box
.....etc

Apologies for such a late reply, I had given up on this project, but with all these updates that valve is throwing out it would shave off a ton of my time.

[Kybber]

I use a Linux VPS for building both our Linux and Windows packages. The trick to running updates for steam-games is to install wine and run "wine Hldsupdatetool.exe -command etc." the same way you'd run "steam -command etc." for a Linux package.

All entries in packages.txt need to be lower-case. The relevant lines from my file look like this:

[ryguy222]

The VPS happens to be in the same data center as the full dedicated system (or at least pretty close, not sure how else I could explain a 20mbps upload speeds)

So I just run HLDS on the windows, zip it up, and upload it. I don't have any linux systems (other than the VPS at this time, so I don't need linux files, and I can't seem to get it to build properly on a windows platform)

The main directory is /SERV/

so the path to the build-update.php is

/SERV/build-update.php

and then I have /SERV/win32/orangebox/tf

I did use both uppercase and lowercase as a command, and they are all lowercase.

ALso I have that exact code in the packages file and same error >_<

[Kybber]

What error? That tf2 cannot be found in packages.txt? Where is your packages.txt located? And is it readable by the user that runs the build-update script?

Can you post the exact output when trying to run build-update?

[ryguy222]

Well I uploaded the files to the server under an account ryguy221. Permissions are set 777 on the packages.txt file. I also did nano and opened that packages.txt file and made sure that the code was in there. I will post an image, and you will see tf2 is in the file.

I tried this from both the root account, as well as the ryguy221 account which may have had ownership as I uploaded the file under the ryguy221 account.

Here is what this all looks like.

[Kybber]

Is packages.txt in your cwd? I notice you are running build-update from a different dir. That is ok, but packages.txt needs to be in the dir you are at when you launch build-update. If packages.txt is in /home/ryguy221/evlgaming/SERV, along with you win32 dir etc, just cd to that dir before running build-update.

If you are willing to allow me access to your host, please send me a pm with your login information and I will take a look and try to identify the problem. If not, then that's understandable, and we can continue here on the forums.

[ryguy222]

Change the CD to that directory did the trick

We're not outta the woods yet...


IT says:

[Kybber]

Do you have any files in you win32 and/or linux dirs that are called tf2.txt* or orange-box.txt? They are the files that contain information about every single file and dir in you tf2 master install.

If you have those files, do this:
- remove all the .txt* files from both win32 and linux
- in gc webinterface, uncheck both tf2 and orangebox. Save. Recheck tf2 and orangebox, and save again. This zeros out your revision numbering.
- run build-update.php on tf2. If it works now, run build-update on orange-box.

[Mika56]

loool
I had fun reading this topic.
<?, aka shors tags, are disabled by default (because it is in conflict with asp tags).
<? should not be used anymore. Use <?php instead.
Change your first (second) line to <?php and the script will work, on Windows too.

Mika.

[Kybber]

ASP sucks on so many levels. And here's another one. Nice find