This page provides information on building the GTKv2 client from source. Instructions for compiling the server are on a separate page.

The following dependencies are required to compile the client:

• autoconf - automatic configure script builder
• automake - Tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles
• cmake - cross-platform, open-source make system
• flex - A fast lexical analyzer generator
• gcc - GNU C compiler
• libgd-tools - GD command line tools and example code
• libgtk2.0-0 - GTK+ graphical user interface library
• libgtk2.0-dev - Development files for the GTK+ library
• libpng3 - PNG library - runtime
• libtool - Generic library support script
• make - An utility for Directing compilation
• perl - Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language

The following (optional) dependencies are used for metaserver support:

• libcurl3 - easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library (OpenSSL flavour)
• libcurl4-openssl-dev - development files and documentation for libcurl (OpenSSL flavour)

The following (optional) dependencies are used for additional rendering modes:

• libglade2-0 - library to load .glade files at runtime
• libglade2-dev - development files for libglade
• libsdl1.2-dev - Simple DirectMedia Layer development files
• libsdl-image1.2-dev - libsdl-image1.2-dev - Image loading library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 1.2, development files

Other (optional) dependencies:

• libsdl-mixer1.2-dev - Mixer library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 1.2, development files
• lua5.1 - Simple, extensible, embeddable programming language

(Optional) To download source code for compiling the client:

• subversion - Advanced version control system

As a quick reference for Debian and Ubuntu related distributions:

sudo apt-get autoconf automake cmake flex gcc libgd-tools libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-dev libpng3 libtool make perl libcurl3 libcurl4-openssl-dev libglade2-0 libglade2-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev lua5.1 subversion  

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.

• 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.

$ svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/crossfire/code/client/trunk client.svn

These steps have you download branches/1.12

$ svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/crossfire/code/client/branches/1.12 client.svn

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

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.