Compile Error: "Export Failed"

Game Development ChoiceScript Help
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I’m having trouble with compiling the latest version of my project. I’ve successfully compiled the project before but that was back in 2017.

The error I’m getting is when I try to run the compiler, Firefox tells me:

EXPORT FAILED
Error: Could not open web/mygame/index.html

Everything seems to work fine locally (the files all exist, the game works, etc.), so I’m not sure what I may be doing wrong. Any help would be appreciated.

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Welcome to the COG community! :slight_smile:

Are you using the most recent version of Choicescript? If you’re still using a version from 2017, then you’re probably going to run into tons of errors. There’s also been a lot of errors with Firefox recently - have you tried running the compiler in a different browser?

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Thanks for responding! I didn’t have success using Chrome or Explorer/Edge either, so perhaps it is the old version of the compiler. If you can point me to the new version I’d love to give that a try :slight_smile:

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The latest version is always on GitHub.

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I’m running into this issue, too: this is my first time trying to compile my game, so I might be doing something wrong!

I followed @cup_half_empty’s instructions here.

  • I downloaded the most recent version of ChoiceScript.
  • I edited my style.css stylesheet and saved it.
  • Using CSIDE, I exported my files to my /web/mygame/scenes folder, ensuring it was empty of other files first.
  • I downloaded Firefox and set html files to be automatically opened by Firefox.
  • I ran the compile.html file in my root folder, and it keeps popping up this error:

EXPORT FAILED
Error: Could not open web/mygame/index.html

Does anyone know what could be causing this or how to fix it? :slight_smile:

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Does exporting a compilation from within CSIDE work? I appreciate you can’t use a custom stylesheet (yet), just trying to eliminate problem spaces.

But my assumption is that you’ve just not got the paths quite right somewhere.

EDIT: Actually is this all to do with the fact you need to “upload” files now? For compile.html you need to upload your whole CS folder (i.e. choicescript-master).

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Oh, I got it to work! I think what happened was that I extracted the files in such a way that there were two “choicescript-master” files nested on top of each other, if that makes any sense! (How does one compile from CSIDE, though?)

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Right-click a project, go to export, then ‘compiled game’:
image

Not currently available on the web version though.

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Oh, thank you! :sob: I’ve been using CSIDE for three years now and I’m still learning things about it haha!

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More info available in the help tab at: Home > Basic Topics > Publishing and Exporting

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I’ve been trying to learn how to use CSIDE over the last couple of days and i’m confused when i get and error for gender choice, and choices in particular. I would really appreciate some help since this is the 1st time i’m doing this.

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It sounds like you’d benefit from posting about your specific issues in the “ultimate noob coding question thread” or searching for topics relating to the specific errors you get, @Xiomy_Gomez. The more specific you are about what you’re doing, what errors and messages you’re seeing, or what you’re confused by, the more likely someone will have a solution for you!

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Thank you! I’ll try that.

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