Build dependencies

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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

[edit] 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.

[edit] Supported build environments

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

[edit] Supported compilers

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

[edit] Framework

• SDL >= 1.2.8
• boost >= 1.33.1

[edit] 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

[edit] Sound libraries

• libvorbis
• libvorbisfile
• libogg
• OpenAL

[edit] 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 copy of guichan >= 0.8.2 resides in our Subversion repository and it will get automatically built later when you run scons ext.

[edit] Scripting-related libraries

• SWIG >= 1.3.40
• Python >= 2.6

[edit] Compression libraries

• zlib >= 1.2

[edit] Linux specific

• Xcursor

[edit] Optional libs

• libopengl & libglu >= 1.3: for additional OpenGL support.