How to compile and run Aethyra on your GNU/Linux Box ================================================ Homepage: http://www.aethyra.com/ IRC: irc.freenode.net / #aethyra 1) Requirements 2) Compiling Aethyra 3) Notes 1. Requirements =============== You are expected to have either checked out Aethyra from CVS 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/ * 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 checked Aethyra out from Subversion 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/ 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 checked out from SVN, run "./autobuild.sh" to install the client. 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.) ./autogen.sh 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://forum.aethyra.com 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