Is copying the libraries to /tmp really necessary?

[hideki2k02]

Hello there,

Recently I was running some tests to get CreamLinux working with the Irony Launcher (HOI4) and I had to make some tweaks to the "run_hoi4" script that the game uses on Linux.

I noticed that by simply adding these two lines to the script it will work just as fine, so why did you opt to copying the files?

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$GAME_DIR":"$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
export LD_PRELOAD="$LD_PRELOAD lib64Creamlinux.so lib32Creamlinux.so libsteam_api.so"

"$GAME_DIR/hoi4" "$@"

Another thing that might be worth noting: You can add this to the launch parameters and it will also work just fine (Just double check if the game is 32 or 64 bits)

LD_PRELOAD="lib64Creamlinux.so $LD_PRELOAD" gamemoderun %command%

[T00fy]

Because some games put those files in different directories. It's easier to debug by just doing an ls on /tmp. Technically you don't need to put it in /tmp, but what difference does it even make? Is /tmp not accessible?