steamworks4j

Known issues

Linux

unable to load libsdkencryptedappticket.so

As of Steamworks SDK v1.42, SteamEncryptedAppTicket.loadLibraries() fails because it is unable to load libsdkencryptedappticket.so, even if it’s available and right next to libsteamworks4j-encryptedappticket.so in the library path.

I still don’t understand why this happens, but I found a workaround which needs patchelf to modify the shared library’s soname. This only needs to be done once after setting up or updating the /sdk folder.

Last time I tried, the version of patchelf distributed on Debian/Ubuntu/Mint was outdated and didn’t provide the needed option yet. Here are the steps to build and install patchelf from source code:

./bootstrap.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install

With patchelf installed, navigate to /sdk/public/steam/lib/linux64 and run:

patchelf --set-soname libsdkencryptedappticket.so libsdkencryptedappticket.so

After that, you can copy this library to your resource path, or use Maven to package a version of steamworks4j-server with all libraries included:

mvn [package|install] -pl server -Plibs