BUILDING.linux

*** BUILDING UPLINK ***

Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Contrib
3. Lib
4. Source

1. Introduction

Make sure that you are in $UPLINKROOT (the place where you copied all
the files to, containing the directories contrib, lib, uplink, etc).

Export the following environment variable to make cutting and pasting
of commands easier:

%  export UPLINKROOT=`pwd`

2. Contrib

-Needs autopackage, http://www.autopackage.org/
-Needs autoconf, automake, libtool, Debian: autoconf, automake1.9, libtool.
-Needs x11 headers and extensions, Debian: libx11-dev, libxext-dev.
-Needs OpenGL headers, Debian: libgl1-mesa-dev, libglu1-mesa-dev.
-Needs jpeg, Debian: libjpeg62-dev.
-For SDL and SDL_mixer, if you want to use ALSA sound layer you will make sure 
 that you have alsa development libraries installed (Debian: used to be 
 alsa-headers, now libasound2-dev), same for ESD (Debian: libesd0-dev).
-For loki, libxml (Debian: libxml-dev), gtk 1 (Debian: libgtk1.2-dev), 
 libglade (Debian: libglade0-dev), ncurses (Debian: libncurses5-dev).

%  cd $UPLINKROOT/contrib
%  make

3. Lib

%  cd $UPLINKROOT/lib
%  make

4. Source

%  cd $UPLINKROOT/uplink/src
%  make

Should produce uplink.full in $UPLINKROOT/uplink/src/ .

-To produce a easy testable version :

%  cd $UPLINKROOT/uplink/src
%  make dist-full

Should produce uplink.bin.x86 in $UPLINKROOT/uplink/src/dist/full/uplink/lib
with all needing libs and dat files.

-To produce a redistributable patch :

%  cd $UPLINKROOT/uplink/src
%  make dist-patch

If you are using ALSA sound layer make sure that no other
program has the sound device, otherwise Uplink will wait
(indefinitely) for the sound device to become available.