#summary Instructions for building the development version of Hedgewars on Linux (debian focus)
#labels Phase-Implementation,Phase-Deploy,Phase-Support

= Introduction =

Copy and Paste instructions for a Hedgewars development build. Should work on Debian and the like (Ubuntu, Mint).  Packages for other distros should have similar names.  Remember to copy the *entire* apt-get lines!
Important.  This builds the latest development sources.  If you want to build the latest stable, run: hg up 0.9.20 before running cmake.  Also, see http://hedgewars.org/download.html if you are just looking to play latest stable - there's a good chance it exists for your distro.

= 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 libphysfs-dev fonts-dejavu-core ttf-wqy-zenhei
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If you want PNG screenshots, add:
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sudo apt-get install libpng12-dev
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If you want video recording, add:
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sudo apt-get install libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev freeglut3-dev
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If you want to try building the server as well (requires at least libghc base 4.3 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 libghc-vector-dev libghc-random-dev libghc-zlib-dev libghc-sha-dev libghc-entropy-dev
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= Building process =

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mkdir -p ~/games ~/hg/hedgewars/
cd ~/hg/hedgewars
hg clone -v https://hedgewars.googlecode.com/hg/ trunk
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The initial clone of the repository will take a while, is about 628MiB or so, due to all the multimedia revisions.
After that switch to the trunk folder:

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cd trunk
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If you want to build the latest release version (so that you can play with other people online) use this command:
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hg update 0.9.20
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Note. Do *NOT* run the command above if you want to play the latest development code (currently 0.9.21-dev).

Now let's configure and build!
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cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="DEBUG" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$HOME/games" -DDATA_INSTALL_DIR="$HOME/games" -DNOSERVER=1
make install
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IMPORTANT: If you decided against png-screenshots or video-recording support, please append `-DNOPNG=1` and/or `-DNOVIDEOREC=1` to the cmake command line respectively!

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


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 .
make install
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