HuniePop on ArchLinux stopped working for me at some point this year, and today I sat down to suss out the problem.

The libraries that ship with HuniePop don't work anymore; some update in ArchLinux causes the following crash as recorded in player.log:

http://sprunge.us/WCKE

When running the HuniePop binary directly, bypassing start.sh, these libraries aren't loaded and the game works fine. I confirmed this by running...

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/Link/games/pc/HuniePop/lib ./HuniePop.x86

and getting the same crash.

This got me wondering; steam has an official mechanism to run games using "Native runtime", see here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Steam/Troubleshooting#Native_runtime

Is there any such consideration for gog's start.sh? A switch or variable to enable native runtime?

Thanks.

Nah, the switch ain't needed. One only needs to rename all unneeded locally shipped libs "xxxx.lib"--->"xxxx.lib.old" and have native versions present/installed in the system.

I don't know the extent of what that start.sh script actually does; I was concerned I might be missing out on optimizations or something. I'm having trouble with step 2, send help

Lol, this is wrong kind of forum :D (is it? lol!)

should get you going, provided you do it in right place ([url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo3m2ATiomY]McHouney can advice)