x 1.0rc1: Linux: Fedora 14: Capture crashes Sikuli - workaround

In my case on Fedora 14 (64 bits), I had to recompile tesseract 2.04 myself (cause it was not compiled with -fPIC).

Even if I provide the right address for TESSERACT_DATA_DIR in the CMakeCache.txt, or add the corresponding address in cmake_modules/common.cmake, it crashes...

After you add the path to common.cmake, delete the sikuli-script/build, sikuli-ide/build and sikuli-script/target/jar/tessdata directories, then build from scratch as described in build-linux.txt. The tesseract data dir is determined by cmake and the tesseract files are copied to sikuli-script/target/jar/tessdata by cmake. It took me a while to figure this out but after these steps Sikuli does not crash anymore.

I have tried provided patch on Fedora 14 (64 bits), it does not solve the problem...

Applied Edu's patch.

Did you remove the build directories and the tessdata directory in
sikuli-script/target/jar as described in comment #2 and then rebuild?

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Arnaud Gelas <email address hidden> wrote:
> I have tried provided patch on Fedora 14 (64 bits), it does not solve
> the problem...
>
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> Title:
>  x 1.0rc1: Linux: Fedora 14: Capture crashes Sikuli - workaround
>
> Status in Sikuli:
>  In Progress
>
> Bug description:
>  Sikuli version: Sikuli-X-1.0rc1
>  OS: Fedora 14
>
>  To reproduce:
>  1. Launch Sikuli-IDE from the command line with sikuli-ide.sh.
>  2. Click the capture button.
>  3. After the delay, select something.
>
>  Result: Sikuli crashes and the following message appears in the shell:
>  "Unable to load unicharset file /tmp/sikuli/tessdata/eng.unicharset".
>
>  The file /tmp/sikuli/tessdata/eng.unicharset exists but is empty. The
>  reason is that the tesseract OCR resources are not found
>  (writeFileList in sikuli-
>  script/src/main/java/org/sikuli/script/ResourceExtractor.java:21) and
>  the NullPointerException is ignored. The empty file causes tesseract
>  to crash.
>
>  I'm using the tesseract 2.04 Fedora RPM. The resource files are in
>  /usr/share/tesseract/tessdata. Adding this path to the
>  TESSERACT_DATA_DIR confsets in cmake_modules/common.cmake fixes the
>  problem.
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Edu,

Thanks!!!
Removing these directories actually solve my problem!

Is there a better way (not a hack) to solve this issue, or an automated one?

Arnaud