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Hey all, I spent the weekend trying to learn rust. To get started I decided to try converting the bsatool from the openmw source.

If you are interested you can check out the source here: https://github.com/arviceblot/bsatool_rs

If you have rust installed you can try it out from the crate with: It seems to work on the main Morrowind.bsa on macOS and Linux, but I make no guarantees

Cool! <3 Rust

Brilliant, that actually resolves an issue in one of my projects (https://gitlab.com/portmod/portmod/-/issues/108). I'll let you know if I find any bugs.

It was mildly problematic that bsatool was, to my knowledge, the only cli tool that could handle bsa files, but isn't distributed with all the release variants of OpenMW, so it's not guaranteed that everyone will have access to it (it included with the Linux builds, if I recall, but not Windows builds). I probably should have requested that it be included, but I never got around to it.

Welcome to the world of Rust!

bmw wrote: ↑15 Apr 2020, 15:19 It was mildly problematic that bsatool was, to my knowledge, the only cli tool that could handle bsa files, but isn't distributed with all the release variants of OpenMW, so it's not guaranteed that everyone will have access to it (it included with the Linux builds, if I recall, but not Windows builds). I probably should have requested that it be included, but I never got around to it.

All you had to do was ask man... I guess I'll make a point of it that 0.46, nightlies and rest all ship with it.

bmw wrote: ↑15 Apr 2020, 15:19 It was mildly problematic that bsatool was [...] the only cli tool that could handle bsa files, but isn't distributed with all the release variants of OpenMW

This was actually my primary motivator, second was to learn rust, and third was to have an excuse to start poking around the OpenMW source.

psi29a wrote: ↑15 Apr 2020, 15:30 0.46, nightlies and rest all ship with it.

Wooh! That'll make testing a lot faster. I never got the macOS dependencies figured out so I've been comparing tool outputs on a Linux VM.

psi29a wrote: ↑15 Apr 2020, 15:30 All you had to do was ask man... I guess I'll make a point of it that 0.46, nightlies and rest all ship with it.

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Thanks, that sounds great.
I get distracted easily, and find communication difficult, so I just kept putting it off in favour of working on other things.

I don't suppose it would be possible to have the install directory added to the Windows PATH variable as well, or should I just try to detect it's location? For that matter, would the macOS version also have that issue, or does macOS have applications in the path by default?

Generally, it's not considered a good idea for installers to add things to the path on Windows without asking. The character limit used to be pretty short, so it risked breaking things.

Going off-topic, but if we're going to enable bsatool, let's include esmtool as well, it can do some things OpenMW-CS can't.

Capostrophic wrote: ↑16 Apr 2020, 06:34 Going off-topic, but if we're going to enable bsatool, let's include esmtool as well, it can do some things OpenMW-CS can't.

Already done on the Linux side of things, just need MacOS and Windows to follow. We can verify in our 0.46 thread for RCs.

The main thing is changing these lines, then: https://gitlab.com/OpenMW/openmw/-/blob ... h#L762-765