Requirements ============ You should be able to build OpenClonk with any C++ compiler that supports ISO C++11. That said, on Windows, we recommend using Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 or higher; the Express edition will be sufficient. On Linux, you will be fine with GNU g++ 4.6 or later. Apple users should use a clang-based XCode version. To generate project files for your chosen build system, you will also have to install CMake from http://www.cmake.org/. Additionally, OpenClonk depends on a number of third-party libraries: - zlib (http://zlib.net/) - libpng (http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html) - libjpeg-turbo (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libjpeg-turbo/files/) - FreeType (http://www.freetype.org/) - The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library (http://glew.sourceforge.net/) - FreeALUT (https://github.com/openclonk/freealut) - libogg and libvorbis (https://www.xiph.org/downloads/) - Boost (http://www.boost.org/users/download/) OS X Specific ============= OpenClonk supports OS X versions 10.6 "Snow Leopard" and later. You can build universal binaries by setting CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES to "x86_64 i386", but you will of course need universal versions of the dependencies in that case. If you are using brew (https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew) or MacPorts (http://www.macports.org/), the packages you'll have to install are: libjpeg, libpng, freetype, glew, libogg, libvorbis, boost Linux Specific ============== For building OpenClonk on Linux, you need the following libraries in addition to the ones listed above: - libxpm - libGL - SDL 1.2 (http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php) - SDL_mixer 1.2 (http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/release-1.2.html) Most distributions should provide these dependencies via their packaging system. For Debian based distributions, you will need these packages: build-essential cmake libx11-dev libxxf86vm-dev libxrandr-dev libxpm-dev libglew-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libpng12-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libgtk2.0-dev libjpeg8-dev zlib1g-dev libboost-dev (This list was compiled on Debian 7.0 "Wheezy". More recent distributions may provide packages with a higher version number.) Windows Specific ================ In addition to the libraries above, you will need one more if you want to target Windows: - OpenAL Soft (http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html) To create an installer, you will also need the Nullsoft Install System (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/). makensis needs to be in the PATH, and the DLLs used by openclonk must be in the build directory. To create the installer, build the "setup" target.