Build dependencies

From FIFE development wiki

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Supported build environments 3 Supported compilers 4 Framework 5 SDL addon libraries 6 Sound libraries 7 GUI / RAD libraries 8 Scripting-related libraries 9 Compression libraries 10 Linux specific 11 Optional libs

Introduction

This page lists all dependencies that need to be installed to build FIFE from source.

Quick installs are available for Debian based systems (e.g. Ubuntu) and Win32 based systems.

Supported build environments

• Code::Blocks
• KDevelop
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008
• Scons >= 1.2

Supported compilers

• gcc / g++
• mingw
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008

Framework

• SDL >= 1.2.8
• boost >= 1.33.1

SDL addon libraries

• SDL_ttf >= 2.0
• SDL_image - NOTE there have been issues using SDL-image version 1.2.9. Please use latest version! See trac ticket #410

Sound libraries

• libvorbis
• libvorbisfile
• libogg
• OpenAL

GUI / RAD libraries

• guichan >= 0.8.2 for the ingame GUI. Don't install guichan via your package manager. Due to problems with package detection, a patched copy of guichan >= 0.8.2 resides in our Subversion repository and it will get automatically built later when you run scons ext.

Scripting-related libraries

• SWIG >= 1.3.40
• Python >= 2.6

Compression libraries

• zlib >= 1.2

Linux specific

• Xcursor

Optional libs

• libopengl & libglu >= 1.3: for additional OpenGL support.
• Qt4 for building Atlas Creator tool