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Perttu Ahola 2011-11-05 14:48:32 +02:00
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@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ $ ./minetest
- If you want to install it system-wide (or are making a distribution package), you will want to use -DRUN_IN_PLACE=0
- You can build a bare server or a bare client by specifying -DBUILD_CLIENT=0 or -DBUILD_SERVER=0
- You can select between Release and Debug build by -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=<Debug or Release>
- Note that the Debug build is considerably slower
- Debug build is slower, but gives much more useful output in a debugger
Compiling on Windows:
---------------------
@ -90,16 +90,18 @@ Compiling on Windows:
http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/index.html
* Zlib library (zlibwapi.lib and zlibwapi.dll from zlib125dll.zip):
http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/index.html
* gettext bibrary and tools:
* Optional: gettext bibrary and tools:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/downlinks/gettext.php
- This is used for other UI languages. Feel free to leave it out.
* And, of course, Minetest-c55:
http://celeron.55.lt/~celeron55/minetest/download
- Steps:
- Select a directory called DIR hereafter in which you will operate.
- Make sure you have CMake and a compiler installed.
- Download all the other stuff to DIR and extract them into there. All those
packages contain a nice base directory in them, which should end up being
the direct subdirectories of DIR.
- Download all the other stuff to DIR and extract them into there.
("extract here", not "extract to packagename/")
- All those packages contain a nice base directory in them, which
should end up being the direct subdirectories of DIR.
- You will end up with a directory structure like this (+=dir, -=file):
-----------------
+ DIR
@ -119,7 +121,7 @@ Compiling on Windows:
+ lib
+ include
...
+ gettext
+ gettext (optional)
+bin
+include
+lib
@ -163,7 +165,8 @@ Compiling on Windows:
If using MSVC:
- Open the generated minetest.sln
- The project defaults to the "Debug" configuration. Make very sure to
select "Release", unless you want to debug some stuff (it's slower)
select "Release", unless you want to debug some stuff (it's slower
and might not even work at all)
- Build the ALL_BUILD project
- Build the INSTALL project
- You should now have a working game with the executable in