MG/Linux Compiling

Linux Compiling:

1. Get the project from SVN using the commandline or your favorite SVN tool (rabbitvcs or tortoise)
2. Download package dependencies for your Linux distribution (see mk/linux/setupBuildDeps.sh which can do that for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and Open SuSE based distro's). The following is the current dependency list:

jpeg, lua5.1, png, SDL, openal, curl, xerces-c, ogg, vorbis, vorbisfile, vorbisenc, z, GL, GLU, SDLmain (and the tools require wx)

There are two build systems currently (#1 is the new build system that will replace #2)

#1 Build using CMake

1. Open a terminal window and navigate to trunk (or the specified branch) and type the following:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

2. If nothing goes wrong you will see glest.bin (and other binaries) in the same folder (mk/linux).

#2 Build using Perforce Jam

1. Open a terminal window and navigate to mk/linux and type the following:

./autogen.sh
./configure
jam

2. If nothing goes wrong you will see glest.bin (and other binaries) in the same folder (mk/linux).

Test binaries

1. To test running the game, run the binary in mk/linux like this:

./glest.bin

These are some commandline options:

./glest.bin --help
./glest.bin --version
./glest.bin --opengl-info

There are some more useful scripts here: Misc Scripts