MG/Linux Compiling

This page explains how to compile MegaGlest on linux platforms.

Requirements

Get the project from the SVN using the command line or your favorite SVN tool (such as RabbitVCS or TortoiseSVN).
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 (and the tools require wx):
- jpeg
- lua5.1
- png
- SDL
- openal
- curl
- xerces-c
- ogg
- vorbis
- vorbisfile
- vorbisenc
- z
- GL
- GLU
- SDLmain
- ircclient

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

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

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

Notes: The follow are build types supported using cmake:

To change the build type execute cmake (default is Release) using:

cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=<...>

e.g.

cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug

Download and extract the MingW win32 dependency archive from Sourceforge and extract into the source folder.
Install the MingW cross compiler for your distro. In Ubuntu run:

sudo apt-get install mingw32 mingw32-binutils mingw32-runtime

Open a terminal and cd to the root folder of your Mega-Glest folder (usually trunk).
Modify the script. You also need to change win32_deps/curl-7.20.1 to win32_deps/curl-7.21.3
Run the script:

./build-mg-win.sh

If all goes well you should see the Windows .exe binaries produced in the data/glest_game folder.

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