Compiling

Compilation requirements

For source tarbal, Mercurial source, and package installations, you'll also need to install these packages:

• scons build system
• SDL 1.2 download SDL-devel and SDL
• SDL_net 1.2 download SDL_net-devel
• SDL_image 1.2 download SDL_image-devel
• SDL_ttf 2.0 download SDL_ttf-devel
• speex download current stable release
• libogg and libvorbis can be found in their download-section. libspeex, too.
• zlib
• Boost C++ Libraries download boost, boost-devel, including boost_thread and boost_date_time.
• (optional) Fribidi download GNU FriBidi

Compile from Sources

Source Distribution

• Get the source distribution archive from the download section.
• Extract the archive using a compression/extraction utility such as tar.
• Go in the extracted archive. If you have a Unix system (Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X):
  • Run the 'scons' script to compile the game (it will check dependencies, install any you have missing)
    • If you want to install the game in a special place, instead of 'scons', type:

scons BINDIR="/path/to/install/bin" INSTALLDIR="/path/to/install/share"

• • Install with a simple 'scons install' command (will install to the location you might have entered when compiling (BINDIR and INSTALLDIR)).
  • Run the game by typing 'glob2'. If it doesn't work, type '/path/to/install/bin/glob2' instead.
  • Note: in some Linux distributions (eg: Archlinux), scons complains about not finding -lboost_thread (with boost already installed). A solution is to modify the SConstruct file to look for boost_thread-mt instead of boost_thread, and the modify the LIBS variable with boost_thread-mt, to link against this library. If you have root access you can create a symlink libboost_thread.so instead.

Sources from Mercurial

• Download the source code from the Mercurial by typing

hg clone http://hg.globulation2.org/glob2-new/
hg clone -r default glob2-new glob2-work

• You can update the source code you have any time with a simple

cd glob2
hg pull
cd ../glob2-work
hg pull -r default ../glob2
hg update -C tip

• Read the README.hg and README files.
• Continue by following the source distribution instructions from the 3rd step onwards.