DarkRadiant - Compiling in Linux

Install Required Packages

Ubuntu 17.04 x64 / Ubuntu 16.10 x64 / Kubuntu 16.10 x64

Copy and paste the following into a terminal:

sudo apt-get install git g++ gettext automake libtool pkg-config zlib1g-dev libjpeg62-dev libwxgtk3.0-dev libxml2-dev 
sudo apt-get install libsigc++-2.0-dev libpng-dev libftgl-dev libglew-dev libboost-dev libboost-regex-dev 
sudo apt-get install libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-python-dev libboost-test-dev libalut-dev libvorbis-dev

Debian 9

Copy and paste the following into a terminal:

sudo apt-get install git automake libtool pkg-config gettext zlib1g-dev libjpeg62-turbo-dev libwxgtk3.0-dev 
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libsigc++-2.0-dev libpng-dev libftgl-dev libglew-dev libboost-dev libboost-filesystem-dev 
sudo apt-get install libboost-test-dev libalut-dev libvorbis-dev libboost-python-dev libboost-regex-dev

Fedora 25

Copy and paste the following into a terminal:

sudo dnf install git automake libtool gcc-c++ zlib-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel wxGTK3-devel libxml2-devel 
sudo dnf install libsigc++20-devel ftgl-devel glew-devel boost-devel libvorbis-devel freealut-devel python-devel

Arch Linux

The following packages are requred after starting from an Arch-Anywhere installation using Gnome as Window Manager. This is based on a system that has the base-devel package configuration:

sudo pacman -S automake libtool wxgtk ftgl glew boost boost-libs freealut webkitgtk2

openSUSE 42.2

openSUSE 42 is complicated, as it ships with a rather dated GCC 4.8 which doesn't support all C++11 features like std::regex. This causes a few problems which we need to tackle one after the other:

• We need to install a newer compiler
• We need to build wxWidgets 3.0.x ourselves (otherwise DR would refuse to start, since wxWidgets is checking the GCC ABI Compatibility at startup and bails out as the wxWidgets library shipping with openSUSE was built with a different GCC version)
• We need to point DarkRadiant to the folder where it can find the homegrown wxWidgets binaries (through LD_LIBRARY_PATH)

Install the newer GCC5 by opening YaST2 and go to Software Management, then type in gcc5 in the search box. I chose the following two packages:

gcc5-g++
libstd++6-gcc5

Then install a couple of base libraries needed for DarkRadiant:

sudo zypper install git make libtool automake gcc-c++ zlib-devel libjpeg62-devel gettext-tools 
sudo zypper install libxml2-devel libsigc++2-devel ftgl-devel glew-devel boost-devel python-devel libvorbis-devel freealut-devel

Download and extract the source tarball for wxWidgets (I'll assume this is in your home folder ~/):

wget https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/download/v3.0.3/wxWidgets-3.0.3.tar.bz2
tar -xvf wxWidgets-3.0.3.tar.bz2
cd wxWidgets-3.0.3

Point the configure script to the newer compiler using the CXX= prefix:

CXX="g++-5" ./configure --with-opengl --prefix=/home/greebo/wx_install && make -j3 && make install

This will place the wxWidgets binaries into your /home/greebo/wx_install/lib64 folder (where DarkRadiant will need to be pointed at later on). Compile DarkRadiant from source as the next step (assuming you cloned the sources into your home folder), point the configure script to the wx-config binary we previously installed in ~/wx_install/bin.

cd ~/DarkRadiant
CXX="g++-5" ./configure --enable-darkmod-plugins --prefix=/home/greebo/dr_install --with-wx-config=/home/greebo/wx_install/bin/wx-config 
CXX="g++-5" make -j3 && make install

This will place the DarkRadiant executable into the /home/greebo/dr/bin/ folder after a successful build. To launch DarkRadiant, specify an LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable otherwise it will refuse to start, claiming something like "error while loading shared libraries: libwx_gtk2u_gl-3.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file"

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/wx_install/lib64 ~/dr_install/bin/darkradiant

Ubuntu 15.10 x64 / Kubuntu 16.04 x64

Copy and paste the following into a terminal:

sudo apt-get install git automake libtool pkg-config zlib1g-dev libjpeg62-dev libwxgtk3.0-dev libxml2-dev 
sudo apt-get install libsigc++-2.0-dev libpng12-dev libftgl-dev libglew-dev libboost-dev libboost-regex-dev 
sudo apt-get install libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-python-dev libboost-test-dev libalut-dev libvorbis-dev

Debian 8.2

The same instructions as for Ubuntu 15.10 should work, but instead use this command line to install the dependencies (the libjpeg package is named differently):

sudo apt-get install git automake libtool pkg-config zlib1g-dev libjpeg62-turbo-dev libwxgtk3.0-dev libxml2-dev 
sudo apt-get install libsigc++-2.0-dev libpng12-dev libftgl-dev libglew-dev libboost-dev libboost-regex-dev 
sudo apt-get install libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-python-dev libboost-test-dev libalut-dev libvorbis-dev

Mageia 5.1 x64

Copy and paste the following into a terminal, run as user who has the required permissions to install the packages:

sudo urpmi git automake libtool gcc-c++ libzlib-devel libjpeg-devel libwxgtku3.0-devel libsigc++2.0-devel libftgl-devel 
sudo urpmi libglew-devel libboost-devel libpython-devel libopenal-devel libfreealut-devel libvorbis-devel

CentOS 7 x64

Copy and paste the following into a terminal, run as user who has the required permissions to install the packages:

sudo yum -y install gcc gcc-c++ git automake libtool zlib-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel wxGTK3-devel libxml2-devel 
sudo yum -y install libsigc++20-devel ftgl-devel glew-devel boost-devel openal-soft-devel freealut-devel libvorbis-devel python-devel

CentOS 7 ships with an older compiler, so you'll need to install a more recent GCC first (following the directions on stackoverflow):

sudo yum install centos-release-scl 
sudo yum install devtoolset-4-gcc*
scl enable devtoolset-4 bash

Note that the wxGTK3-devel package doesn't create a wx-config symlink in the /usr/bin directory, that's why you need to pass an additional --with-wx-config=/usr/bin/wx-config-3.0 argument to the ./configure script below, like this:

./configure --enable-darkmod-plugins --with-wx-config=/usr/bin/wx-config-3.0

Slackware 14.2

Slackware doesn't provide precompiled packages on the one hand (unlike Debian or Arch), but already ships with a lot of libraries on the other. Stuff like git, automake, libtools and development libraries like zlib and boost are already present, but wxWidgets, openAL, ALut and FTGL need to be installed by means of a SlackBuild script. The following has been done in Slackware 14.2, so your mileage may vary.

Download the Source tarballs and the SlackBuild packages from these URLs:

• https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/libraries/wxGTK3/
• https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/libraries/ftgl/
• https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/libraries/OpenAL/
• https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/libraries/freealut/

Download and extract the SlackBuild .tar.gz files in your ~/Downloads folder (or anywhere else where you want to have them). For instance, the wxGTK3 package can be untar'd like this:

tar xzf wxGTK3.tar.gz
cd wxGTK3
chmod +x wxGTK3.SlackBuild

Do this for all of the above libraries, that should give you the directories ftgl/, OpenAL/, wxGTK3/ and freealut/. Next, download the Source Tarballs (the .tar.bz2) files from the links above and place them next to the corresponding SlackBuild script. Then run the scripts for each of them and install the build output in your system in a second step:

./wxGTK3.SlackBuild

This produced (on my end at least) the package /tmp/wxGTK3-3.0.2-i486-2_SBo.tgz which can be installed by the installpkg command:

installpkg /tmp/wxGTK3-3.0.2-i486-2_SBo.tgz

Do the same for the rest of the libraries (ftgl, OpenAL, freealut). Be aware that the freealut package depends on the OpenAL package, so you need to do the OpenAL one first. Once you have these installed, you can proceed to the build section (git clone and configure and make).

Distributions with GCC 4.8 or earlier

DarkRadiant's codebase makes heavy use of C++11 features, in particular std::regex which has been supported from GCC 4.9 on. Not all distributions ship with g++ 4.9 by default (for example Ubuntu 14.04 does not), but it's possible to install a more recent compiler suite. Get the GCC 4.9 package and ensure that the makefiles are called with the correct setup, e.g.

CXX="g++-4.9" ./configure --enable-darkmod-plugins && make -j3 && make install

Older Distributions / Compiling DarkRadiant 1.8 and older

The instructions about how to compile DR 1.8 (based on GTK) in distributions published in 2012 and older have been removed. They should still be in the history of this page, should they ever be needed.

Obtain the source

Make sure you have the git client installed, this is covered in the package installation commands above. Next, change to the directory where you want the source code to be in and then clone the Git repository with:

git clone git://github.com/codereader/DarkRadiant.git

Once the initial clone is done, the source can be updated to the latest version from inside the working directory with:

git pull

Configure and Compile

DarkRadiant employs an Autoconf/Automake build system under Linux as used in the majority of open-source projects. Make sure you have the automake toolchain downloaded, this is covered in the package installation commands above.

As first step, run

./autogen.sh

in your darkradiant folder to update the makefiles and scripts.

Afterwards, run the typical chain of configure and make commands:

./configure --enable-darkmod-plugins
make
make install

By the above, a release build will be created; if a debug build is required pass the --enable-debug option to the configure script.

Other points to note about the configure process:

• The DarkMod-specific plugins are not built by default, the --enable-darkmod-plugins argument will enable them.
• The configure script autodetects required dependencies, and will conditionally enable optional components of DarkRadiant (such as the sound plugin) based on what it finds.
• For quick testing of a DarkRadiant build, it is desirable to install it into a temporary location rather than the default of /usr/local; for this, simply pass a prefix option such as --prefix=/tmp/dr to configure, after which DarkRadiant will be installed in /tmp/dr/bin/darkradiant.
• In cases where wx-config cannot be found even though the corresponding wxGTK-devel package has been installed (Configure errors with "checking for wx-config... no"), check your /usr/bin folder for a similarly named file, e.g. in CentOS it's called /usr/bin/wx-config-3.0. Pass the path to this file to configure like this: --with-wx-config=/usr/bin/wx-config-3.0

Multiprocessor Systems

You can pass the --jobs=N parameter to make:

make --jobs=2

to use more than one processor for the compilation. This will eat lots of RAM, so don't do this on machines with little available memory.

Building a .deb package

To build a Debian/Ubuntu package, simply run

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

in the main darkradiant directory. The .deb will be created in the parent directory.