- Install instructions for SuperTux -
-http://supertux.berlios.de/
+http://supertux.lethargik.org/
-Last update: October 11, 2005 by Ondra Hosek
+Last update: December 20, 2007 by Christoph Sommer
+
+BINARIES
+--------
+
+ We try to provide precompiled binaries of SuperTux for a number of platforms.
+ You should check
+
+ http://supertux.lethargik.org/wiki/Download
+
+ for the packages and instructions on how to install them. If there are no
+ prebuilt binaries for your platform, then you might still be able to compile
+ the source code yourself. In this case read the next sections.
REQUIREMENTS
------------
- SDL
- ---
- The Simple DirectMedia Layer, a set of libraries made to simplify
- access to multimedia functions of various platforms, is required
- to compile this game.
-
- You can download the SDL libraries from:
- http://www.libsdl.org/
-
- SDL_image
- ---------
- SDL_image, an image-loading library based on SDL, is also required.
-
- You can download SDL_image from:
- http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/
-
- OpenGL
- ------
- OpenGL is a graphics library that your system should already
- have (it is preinstalled on Windows and should be available
- in your X11 distribution on Unix systems).
-
- To have the best performance possible, you should have an
- accelerated graphics card and use its vendor's drivers. Currently,
- only NVidia writes decent drivers for Linux, but since only
- accelerated 2D is used, the performance on ATI or other graphics
- cards shouldn't be significantly worse.
-
- You will need the OpenGL headers to compile SuperTux, so it is
- advisable to first install Mesa (which should be included with your
- X11 distribution) on Unix to get the headers and only then replace
- the software rendering OpenGL library by installing the driver for
- your graphics card.
-
- PhysicsFS
- ---------
- PhysicsFS provides a Quake 3-like data access method.
-
- You can get PhysicsFS and more information about it from:
- http://icculus.org/physfs/
-
- Jam
- ---
- If you want to build SuperTux, you will need Jam, a build system by
- Perforce. Extract the archive on your hard disk, run make and copy
- the compiled binary (in the bin.<platform> directory) into your PATH
- (e.g. /usr/bin).
-
- You can download Jam from:
- ftp://ftp.perforce.com/jam/
-
-
-INSTALLING UNDER LINUX/UNIX
----------------------------
- -----------------------------------------------------------------
- Note: Read this entire section before you start issuing commands!
- -----------------------------------------------------------------
-
- SuperTux uses a script that checks for dependencies and disables
- features in case the requirements are not met.
- The script is named configure and you can specify a few parameters
- like the directory to which you want to install SuperTux
- (by supplying the argument --prefix=/usr/local). For more
- information, type './configure --help'.
- (Note: SuperTux does not need to be installed on the system,
- you can run it from its own directory.)
-
- If no configure script exists (e.g. in case you've retrieved SuperTux
- from SVN), just run the autogen.sh script. You'll need autoconf
- for this.
-
- To compile SuperTux, a 'jam' is enough.
- Type 'jam install' (as root) to copy it into the system.
- (By default, SuperTux installs itself into /usr/local, see above how
- to change this behaviour.)
-
- So, in short, just type:
- sh autogen.sh (in case there isn't any configure file already)
- sh configure
- jam
-
- And in case you want to install SuperTux into the system:
- jam install (as root)
-
-
-ICON FILE
----------
- A 32x32, XPM-format icon file is available if you wish to use
- an icon for a menu entry for this game.
-
- The file is "supertux.xpm", and can be found in the
- data/images/engine/icons/ directory.
+ To build SuperTux from source, you need to have a number of tools and
+ libraries installed. Note that most of these things should already be
+ available prepackaged and optimized for your distribution, it is recommended
+ that you check your distribution first before downloading from the websites.
+ You can also check
+
+ http://supertux.lethargik.org/wiki/Building_SuperTux
+
+ for up-to-date build instructions for a variety of different platforms and
+ distributions.
+
+* Linux development tools (your distribution should come with these):
+ - gcc compiler version 3.2 or newer (you need the c++ compiler g++)
+ http://gcc.gnu.org
+ - gnu binutils
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils
+ - a shell and POSIX commandline tools
+
+* CMake 2.4.7 or later
+ Download: http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Download.html
+ Homepage: http://www.cmake.org/
+
+* OpenGL headers and libraries
+ OpenGL libraries and headers are specific to your graphics card. Make sure
+ that you have hardware accelerated OpenGL drivers installed. Software
+ renderers like Mesa will make SuperTux unplayable slow.
+
+* SDL 1.2.5 or later (1.2.8 is recommended on Mac OS X)
+ http://www.libsdl.org
+
+* SDL_image (any version)
+ http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image
+
+* PhysicsFS (1.0.0, the development branch 1.1.x is buggy and does not work,
+ 1.2.0 and later should work when it is released)
+ http://www.icculus.org/physfs
+
+* OpenAL
+ There are no official Linux releases of OpenAL yet, you should grab the
+ latest CVS snapshot (any snapshot from 2005 should work, earlier snapshots
+ tend to have bugs). OpenAL 1.0 or later implementations on other systems
+ like Mac OS X or windows should work.
+
+ http://www.openal.org
+
+ Note: We tried to write our code clean, portable and platform neutral, so it
+ should be possible to compile it on a wide range of platforms and also with
+ other compilers than gcc. However we have no resources to test other setups
+ and it is likely that you hit small problems. Reports and binary compiled
+ packages are of course always welcome. Send them to
+ supertux-devel@lists.lethargik.org
+
+INSTALLING UNDER LINUX/UNIX USING CMAKE
+---------------------------------------
+
+ SuperTux uses CMake to generate a set of Makefiles for the build process. To
+ generate these Makefiles and build SuperTux, perform the following steps:
+
+ 1. `cd' to the directory where you unpacked the SuperTux source
+ archive, i.e. to the directory containing `src' and `data'.
+
+ 2. Create and change to a new, empty build directory by running
+ `mkdir build', `cd build'.
+
+ 3. Run `cmake ..' to create the Makefiles needed to build SuperTux with
+ standard options. If you are missing any libraries needed to build
+ SuperTux, install those first, then try running CMake again. See below
+ for instructions on how to change to standard options.
+
+ 2. Type `make' to start the build process.
+
+ 3. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and
+ documentation. (You should be a root user on Linux systems.
+ You can become a root user with the `su' command or by using
+ `sudo make install')
+
+ 4. The game should work now and you can remove the source directory.
+
+ You can customize the build process by setting additional options for CMake.
+ The easiest way to do this is to use run `ccmake ..' instead of `cmake ..'
+ to bring up the curses-based user interface of CMake. Select an option using the
+ arrow keys, change the selected option by pressing the Enter key, then
+ hit the `c' (repeatedly, if necessary) to apply your changes and bring
+ up new options resulting from your newly set ones. When you are done, press
+ the `g' key to generate a new set of Makefiles and exit.
+
+ Alternatively, you can pass options to `cmake ..' via the command line.
+ Some common command line switches are:
+
+ -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON
+ Generates Makefiles that print all commands prior to executing them.
+ -Dxxx_LIBRARY=/path/to/library.so -Dxxx_INCLUDE_DIR=/path/to/headerfiles
+ Manually specify the installation directory of a library.
+ -DDEBUG=ON
+ Enables debug mode and compiles extra debug symbols into the SuperTux
+ executable. This is useful when sending in bug reports to the
+ developers.
+
+Note for SVN users:
+ SuperTux does not need to be installed on the system, you can run it from
+ its own directory.
+
+SUPPORT
+-------
+
+ You can contact us at supertux-devel@lists.lethargik.org and in the #supertux
+ channel on the irc.freenode.net IRC server.
+
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