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Building the Crossfire Client
This page provides information on building the GTKv2 client from source. Instructions for compiling the server are on a separate page.
Dependencies
- C compiler supporting C99
- CMake
- libgtk2.0-0 - The GTK+ graphical user interface library
- libgtk2.0-dev - Development files for the GTK+ library
- libpng
- Perl
The following (optional) dependencies are used for metaserver support:
- libcurl3 - Multi-protocol file transfer library (OpenSSL)
- libcurl4-openssl-dev - Development files and documentation for libcurl (OpenSSL)
The following (optional) dependencies are used for additional rendering modes:
- libsdl1.2-dev - Simple DirectMedia Layer development files
- libsdl-image1.2-dev - development files for SDL 1.2 image loading library
- OpenGL
Other (optional) dependencies:
- lua5.1 - Simple, extensible, embeddable programming language
- SDL_mixer
As a quick reference for Debian and Ubuntu related distributions:
sudo apt-get install autoconf automake flex gcc libgd-tools libgd2-xpm-dev libtool make subversion libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libcurl3 libcurl4-openssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-dev libglade2-0 libglade2-dev
As a quick reference for openSUSE 64bit:
yast -i autoconf automake flex gcc libcurl4 libcurl-devel libSDL-devel libgda-tools libSDL_image-1_2-0 libSDL_image-devel libgtk-2_0-0 libglade-2_0-0 libglade2-devel libSDL2-2_0-0 libSDL2-devel libSDL_mixer-1_2-0 libSDL_mixer-devel libtool make subversion
Note: For x86_64 systems, do not mix 64-bit and 32-bit libraries unless it cannot be helped. For example, libsvn0 is a 32-bit library, but lib64svn0 is the 64-bit equivalent. The build process may fail in the linkage stage if a 32-bit library is linked during a 64-bit build.
Download Source
- Trunk contains the newest features and development for the game
- Branch contains the most recent “stable” version of the game
- Tags is an official & stable release of the game
IMPORTANT - One should be consistent with what is checked out; meaning use all trunk server & archetypes & maps or branches/1.x server & archetypes & maps or tags/1.71.0 server & archetypes & maps otherwise a strong risk of failure due to incompatibilities exists (broken maps, missing graphics, etc.)
The follow steps may be used to download the client source files to your computer.
Trunk
$ svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/crossfire/code/client/trunk client.svn
Branch
These steps have you download branches/1.12
$ svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/crossfire/code/client/branches/1.12 client.svn
Tag
Here's how to download Tag using the 1.71.0 release as an example
$ svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/crossfire/code/client/tags/1.71.0 client.svn
Using CMake
Briefly, change to the source directory and execute the following commands:
$ mkdir build; cd build $ cmake .. $ make $ sudo make install
If you would like to change the compile-time default options, run ccmake instead of cmake.
To compile with debugging symbols, add -g -O0 to CMAKE_CFLAGS.
