Building Moondust Project from sources

This is a special manual where will be written about building process for each operating system.

Common Preparation

 * Download sources (clone dev repo)
 * Download any config pack

First of all, you will need to download all sources:

Try to clone the repository by this command:

But if you failed to clone repo, you can download sources as ZIP:

https://github.com/Wohlhabend-Networks/PGE-Project

(use the link "Download Zip" for getting the sources from GitHub)



And after download any configuration package (which contains graphics, music and sounds) which need to be able work with PGE:

http://wohlsoft.ru/config_packs.php

Note: Don't forget place configs, languages (after built *.qm files) directories with compiled executable file!

Dependences

 * Qt >= 5.4 (You can download it here: http://qt-project.org/downloads (You need the community version)
 * gcc >=4.7
 * g++ >=4.7
 * freeglut:
 * freeglut3-dev (Debian/Ubuntu/Mint)
 * freeglut-devel (RedHat / CentOS / Fedora)
 * SDL2 >= 2.0 (Will be built with built_deps.sh script)
 * SDL2_mixer >= 2.0 (Will be built with built_deps.sh script)

GCC
Install gcc on Debian/Ubuntu/Mint

on Redhat / CentOS

on openSUSE

SDL
At first, download the SDL library:

On Linux Mint you just can execute to install all dependencies:

Install official SDL2_mixer build: (But instead of you can build a modified SDL2_mixer library which includes with PGE Sources in the _Libs/SDL2_mixer_modified )

Differences: between official and modded builds:
 * Added resample source from 'madplay' player to implement better audio resampling
 * Ability to build via qmake from Qt
 * Enabled true loops for ModPlug and MikMod libraries
 * Attempt to add .SPC playback

If your distro hasn't SDL2 builds, you can found sources of SDL and SDL_mixer dependents in the _Libs/_sources/ folder. You can try to build them with running of "build_linux_usr.sh" as root which will build SDL with /usr/ prefix or run the build_linux.sh which will build dependencies into _Libs/_builds/linux folder. All dependencies will be built when you will run "build_deps.sh" from project root folder. NOTE: If running this under Debian/Ubuntu/Linux Mint, you may also need to install automake.

Qt 5
To get Qt installation you have two ways: you can install Qt5 packages from your repositories but also you can download it here:

http://www.qt.io/download-open-source/

Note: You can see more download links if you will open "View all downloads" page.

If you download necessary package from official site, you should open Terminal and set "executable" permission to get able start installation.

and follow install instructions.
 * download package to your PC
 * Set executable:
 * Run installer:

after installation don't forget to check installed Qt (If your Qt was installed into "/opt/Qt/"):

If you will get message like this: Everything are okay ;-)

for convenience, you can make symlink to qmake in the /usr/bin and use qmake easier:

Warning! If you have already installed other versions of Qt you can create symlink, for example, with "qmake-qt5" name

Preparing for build

 * Extract the source code to a folder where you can find it easily (for example, /home/vasya/projects/pge/)
 * Extract the downloaded config pack into /path/to/your/source/Content/configs

You must have this tree:

 -configs//data --music --sound --graphics common characters --mario --peach --luigi --toad --link level --background --background2 --block --npc --effect worldmap --level --player --tiles --scene --tile for example /opt/Qt/5.4/gcc_64/bin/qmake, /opt/Qt/5.4/gcc_64/bin/lrelease)
 * open the terminal and change current directory to the unpacked folder with project sources
 * run the generate_paths.sh file and when gedit will open, type the paths to qmake and to lrelease (in the bin directory of your Qt,
 * run the build_deps.sh to build included dependent libraries.

Building code
To build project use the special build.sh script:

When everything will be built, you will see a built executables in the ./bin folder.

To start usage of the editor, run the pge_editor file

Deploying of built stuff
If you wish to pack your build to use it on another computers without rebuilding, you can run the "deploy_linux.sh" script from a "_Misc/dev_scripts/deploy" folder:

When deploy script will finish it's job, you will get the "bin/_packed/pge-project-dev-linux-mint.tar.gz" file which you can share to friends or use on another computers yourself.

Notes:
 * Your build will work on compatible linux distros only: I.e. PGE built on Debian/Mint/*Ubuntu will NOT work on Fedora/CentOS/Redhat/OpenSUSE or back!
 * To have right deployment, you should build PGE with Static version of Qt.

Dependences

 * MinGW >= 4.9 (You can get MinGW installer here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/latest/download?source=files) (MinGW already includes with Qt MinGW installer)
 * Qt >= 5.4 (You can download it here: http://www.qt.io/download-open-source/#section-5) (Get Qt for Windows 32 bit (minGW) or use Online Installer to take same version. Don't download VisualStudio versions if you don't plan to use it for yourself! PGE requires MinGW, because MinGW has support of a functions used by PGE which are not available in MSVC!)
 * 7zip (You can download it here: http://7-zip.org/) (needed for deploy script which must be used with dynamic Qt build which available to download)
 * Git (You can download it here: https://git-scm.com/) (Optionally, without it PGE Editor/Engine are will have not build-ID mark in about dialog)
 * SDL2 >= 2.0 (Already included in the _Libs/_builds/win32 )
 * SDL2_mixer >= 2.0 (Already included in the _Libs/_builds/win32 )

Installation of the development tools
Install all the tools in a folder, for example, C:\DevTools. Qt installation Note: you must enable those components: Other components are optional and doesn't required
 * MinGW into C:\MinGW (if you got it separated)
 * Qt into C:\Qt
 * 5.5.1 -> MinGQ 4.9.2 32 bit or similar
 * Tools -> MinGW 4.9.2 or similar

After the install, you can add MinGW and Qt directories into PATH environment:

(if tools was installed into C:\DevTools, you must append those folders into PATH global variable)

PATH string to append:

Preparing to build

 * Extract the source code to a folder where you can find it easily (Path shouldn't contain non-ASCII characters!)
 * Extract the downloaded config pack into /path/to/your/source/Content/configs

You must have this tree:

 -configs//data --music --sound --graphics common characters --mario --peach --luigi --toad --link level --background --background2 --block --npc --effect worldmap --level --player --tiles --scene --tile

for example C:\DevTools\Qt\5.4.0\mingw48_32\bin and C:\DevTools\Qt\Tools\mingw48_32\bin)
 * run the generate_paths.bat file and when notepad will open, type the paths to Qt and to MinGW
 * run the build_deps.bat to build included dependent libraries.

Build code
If everything is successfully built, you will see the built PGE executables in the bin-w32 subfolder - it's the compiled PGE application. You can run and use it!
 * In the project folder, hold Shift key on your keyboard and press the right mouse button, and in the context menu select "Open command window" (available for Windows 7 and newer).
 * In the opened command Window, enter these commands for the build:

P.S. If you was built the dynamic version, you need to run the "_Misc\dev_scripts\deploy\deploy_windows_dynamic.bat" script to automatically copy necessary DLLs into PGE's binary folder. You need to have installed 7zip to have able run this script.

When everything is built, you can run the pge_editor.exe from a bin-w32 directory to run editor application or run the pge_engine.exe to launch game engine.

Dependences

 * XCode and command line dev-tools must be installed (https://developer.apple.com/xcode/downloads/)
 * Qt >= 5.4
 * (You can download it here: http://www.qt.io/download-open-source/) (Get Qt 5.5.1 for Open Source version)
 * Qt can be installed from homebrew with command brew install qt5
 * SDL2 >= 2.0 (will be built with build_deps.sh script)
 * SDL2_mixer >= 2.0 (will be built with build_deps.sh script)

XCode
To install XCode you need to download it from your App Store.

Dependent tools
To have correct working build scripts, you also need to install "coreutols", "binutils" and "gnu-sed"

Note: If you like to uses MacPorts instead of homebrew, do those commands instead:

Qt
You have two ways to install Qt:
 * via homebrew in with terminal command:
 * via Online installer (We recommends you to choice the ~/Qt path which will be easy to access from Finder)

Important Note for El Capitan (OS X 10.11.*)
If you received a build errors with missing of the headers which a small bug which forces to find SDK for OS X 10.10 while you have pre-installed SDK only for 10.11. This trouble can be easily fixed with a small workaround: you will need to make a symlink to 10.11 in the SDK's folder:

Since you will run this in the terminal, build process must work correctly

Static version of Qt
If you don't want to have a troubles with frameworks and dependent dynamic libraries, we are recommending to build static version of Qt yourself. Here is detail manual how to build static version of Qt 5 for Mac OS X: Building static Qt 5

Preparing to build

 * Extract the source code to a folder where you can find it easily (Path shouldn't contain non-ASCII characters!)
 * Extract the downloaded config pack into /path/to/your/source/Content/configs

You must have this tree:

 -configs//data --music --sound --graphics common characters --mario --peach --luigi --toad --link level --background --background2 --block --npc --effect worldmap --level --player --tiles --scene --tile

for example ~/Qt/clang_32/bin)
 * run the generate_paths.sh file and when nano will open, add Qt path into environment and save file with CMD+O
 * run the build_deps.sh to build included dependent libraries.

Building code
To build project use the special build.sh script:

./build.sh

When everything will be built, you will see the built app bundles in the ./bin folder.

To start usage of the editor, run the pge_editor.app file

Deploying of built stuff
If you wish to make a DMG image to use your build on another computers without rebuilding, you can run the "deploy_osx.sh" script from a "_Misc/dev_scripts/deploy" folder:

When deploy script will finish it's job, you will get the "bin/_packed/pge-project-dev-macosx.dmg" file which you can share to friends or use on another computers yourself.

Note: To have right deployment, you should build PGE with Static version of Qt.

Links

 * Original building manual on PGE Forums