Linux Build Instructions

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Contents 1 Make sure you have the required libraries installed 2 Get the source (choose one) 3 Compile 4 Distro-specific notes 4.1 Ubuntu 4.2 Fedora

Make sure you have the required libraries installed

Most distributions package these libraries, so you just have to use the package system to make sure they're installed

• Boost
  • Contains many useful template libraries that haven't made it into mainstream C++ yet
• SDL
• SDL_Net
• SDL_Image
• (Optional) SDL_ttf
  • For TrueType font rendering
• (Optional) libmad
  • For mp3 music playback
• (Optional) libvorbis
  • For Ogg/Vorbis music playback
• (Optional) libsndfile
  • For improved AIFF/WAV support, including IMA compression
• (Optional) Speex
  • For realtime audio payback (net-mic)
  • You must use ALSA if you want to transmit with the net-mic
• (Optional) SMPEG
  • For MPEG movie cutscene playback (rarely used in scenarios)

Get the source (choose one)

• Download the latest release tarball
• Get bleeding edge, experimental source from CVS (AccessCVS)

Compile

• If you downloaded from CVS, in the alephone directory, run:

sh autogen.sh

or if you downloaded a tarball, in the alephone directory, run:

./configure

• Then type:

make

That's all there is to it!

Distro-specific notes

Ubuntu

• Ubuntu does not install a compiler by default. The easiest way to fix this is to install the build-essentials package. Also, ensure you install package-dev as well as package when dealing with the requirements listed above so you have source as well as binaries
• One user reported having to pass --build=i686-unknown-linux-gnu into ./configure to get it to build

Fedora

• smpeg and libmad aren't available in the standard Fedora repository, because they play back mp3s. You can get them by enabling the Livna repository, by installing this RPM.