How to compile and run Aethyra on your GNU/Linux Box ================================================ Homepage: http://www.aethyra.org/ IRC: irc.freenode.net / #aethyra 1) Requirements 2) Compiling Aethyra 3) Notes 1. Requirements =============== You are expected to have either checked out Aethyra from git or you have downloaded a source release. To get Aethyra to compile, you need a compiler (GCC) and some libraries. The required libraries are: * SDL http://www.libsdl.org/ * SDL_mixer http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/ * SDL_image http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/ * SDL_net http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_net/ * SDL_ttf http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_ttf/ * Guichan 0.8.x http://guichan.sourceforge.net/ * libxml2 http://www.xmlsoft.org/ * physfs 1.0.x http://icculus.org/physfs/ * zlib 1.2.x http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ * libcurl http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/ If you cloned Aethyra from the Git repository, you will also need these tools to compile: * GNU automake 1.9 http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/ * GNU autoconf http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/ * GNU gettext http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/ * CVS http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/ (needed to run autopoint) Installing these dependencies is distributions-specific, and we'll leave it to you to figure this out. 2. Compiling And Installing Aethyra =============================================== 1) Go to the directory you have extracted the source to. 2) If you've cloned the Git repository, run "autoreconf -i" to generate configure and install any missing auxiliary files. 3) Run "./configure" 4) Run "make" 5) Run "make install" as root It should have installed Aethyra on your system now, and you can run it with "aethyra". By default all files are installed to /usr/local, you can pass a different prefix to configure as usual. NOTE: if the autobuild.sh fails 1.) autoreconf -i 2.) ./configure 3.) make 4.) su -c "make install" you can get help from A.) IRC channel irc.freenode.net #aedev or #aethyra B.) http://www.aethyra.org/forums/ Make sure you record the output from the konsole window NOTE: It is possible to compile Aethyra without support for OpenGL rendering. To do this perform step 3 as follows: ./configure --without-opengl Rebuild the executable from scratch using "make clean" and then "make". 3. Notes ======== If you have any problems, you are welcome to post your questions on our forums, or talk about them in our IRC channel. - Aethyra Dev Team