#summary Instructions for building Hedgewars on Linux (debian focus)

#labels Phase-Implementation,Phase-Deploy,Phase-Support

= Introduction =

Please see the original post here: http://www.hedgewars.org/node/2215#comment-15049

= Prerequisites =

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sudo apt-get install mercurial cmake qt4-qmake libqt4-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-net1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev liblua5.1-dev fpc

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note, if you want to try building the server as well (requires at least libghc base 4.3 right now) try these too:

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sudo apt-get install ghc libghc-binary-dev libghc-bytestring-show-dev libghc-dataenc-dev libghc-deepseq-dev libghc-hslogger-dev libghc-mtl-dev libghc-network-dev libghc-parsec3-dev libghc-utf8-string-dev

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= Building process =

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mkdir ~/games

mkdir -p ~/hg/hedgewars

cd ~/hg/hedgewars

hg clone https://hedgewars.googlecode.com/hg/ trunk

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The initial clone of the repository will take a while, is about 550MiB or so...

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cd ~/hg/hedgewars/trunk

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="DEBUG" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$HOME/games" -DDATA_INSTALL_DIR="$HOME/games" -DWITH_SERVER=0

make install

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if you want to build the server as well, change -DWITH_SERVER=0 to -DWITH_SERVER=1

then wait for the build to complete, then run ...

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~/games/bin/hedgewars

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You can also create a launcher for it on your desktop or on applications menu if you wish, using the ~/games/bin/hedgewars path

== Build Updates ===

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cd ~/hg/hedgewars/trunk

hg pull -u

cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-g" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$HOME/games" -DDATA_INSTALL_DIR="$HOME/games" -DWITH_SERVER=0

make install

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