Revision as of 23:30, 11 July 2011

The Odamex client and launcher require extra libraries which are not usually included with your operating system.

SDL

SDL is a crossplatform library used to display graphics. It is required in order to compile the Odamex client.

Windows

SDL comes with no installer on Windows, you simply extract the zip into a random directory and reference it. Pointing your compiler at SDL is discussed in the compiler-specific pages.

You want to grab the Development Library on this page that compliments your compiler.

• If you are using Visual Studio, get the one labeled "VC8". This goes for any version of Visual Studio from 2005 SP1 all the way to 2010.
• If you are using MinGW, get the one labeled "Mingw32". If you don't have anything to extract a tar.gz file with, install 7-zip. You will also need to download the library itself, as the MinGW package does not come with the .dll file.

Linux

There is usually a copy of SDL and SDL_mixer included in the repositories of your distribution of choice:

• CentOS (requires EPEL for SDL_mixer): yum install SDL-devel
• Debian: apt-get install libsdl-dev
• Fedora: yum install SDL-devel
• openSUSE: zypper in SDL-devel
• Ubuntu: aptitude install libsdl-dev

Otherwise, you can grab the latest source distribution of SDL from here.

SDL_mixer

SDL_mixer is a compliment to SDL, and handles both sound and music. It is required in order to compile the Odamex client.

Windows

SDL_mixer comes with no installer on Windows, you simply extract the zip into a random directory and reference it. Pointing your compiler at SDL_mixer is discussed in the compiler-specific pages.

You want to grab the Development Library on this page. It is labeled SDL_mixer-devel and works with both Visual Studio and MinGW.

Linux

There is usually a copy of SDL and SDL_mixer included in the repositories of your distribution of choice:

• CentOS (requires EPEL for SDL_mixer): yum install SDL_mixer-devel
• Debian: apt-get install libsdl-mixer1.2-dev
• Fedora: yum install SDL_mixer-devel
• openSUSE: zypper in SDL_mixer-devel
• Ubuntu: aptitude install libsdl-mixer1.2-dev

Otherwise, you can grab the latest source distribution of SDL_mixer from here.

wxWidgets

wxWidgets is a library used to display graphical user interfaces. It is required in order to compile the Odamex launcher.

Windows

wx on Windows is a peculiar beast. While it comes with an installer, you have to compile it yourself in order to generate the proper files for compiling Odalaunch.

1. Download and wxWidgets 2.8 for MSW here.
2. Run the installer. It is recommended to keep the default installation directory (in particular do not install it to Program Files).
3. Follow these instructions if you are using MinGW.
   1. Make sure that MinGW is installed properly and that c:\MinGW\bin is in your path.
   2. Open up a Command Prompt and change to the C:\wxWidgets-2.8.##\build\msw directory.
   3. Run mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc MONOLITHIC=0 UNICODE=0 SHARED=0 BUILD=release
   4. You're done!
4. Follow these instructions if you are using Visual C++.
   1. Open up a Visual Studio Command Prompt. There is a shortcut for this in the Visual Studio folder of your Start menu.
   2. Change to the C:\wxWidgets-2.8.##\build\msw directory.
   3. Run nmake -f makefile.vc MONOLITHIC=0 UNICODE=0 SHARED=0 BUILD=release
   4. You're done!