Hi, I want to run the development version of the game Battle for Wesnoth, but I'm having some problems compiling it...

I downloaded the latest version (1.9.1) and followed the installation instructions;

cd /usr/src
sudo tar -xvjf wesnoth-1.9.1.tar.bz2
cd wesnoth-1.9.1
sudo ./configure --datadir=/usr/share/games/wesnoth/

I managed to get to this point, after some small problems, but 'configure' told me I needed SDL.
I installed SDL (libsdl1.2-dev) using the Software Center, but now it sais;
The version that was installed seems to be 1.2.14
I also looked for sdl-ttf, and that was also already installed (version 2.0.9)

What would be the best thing to do for me, to get this working?

You installed the libs through the software center?

Open a terminal and enter:

sudo apt-get install libsdl-dev

that should collect anything you have missed, give you an error or tell you it is already the latest version.

(When coding, do as much as possible via commandline.)

Thanks for the reply...

Still te same problem, because it didn't update anything (already at the latest version, 0 updated etc...)

Is libsdl-ttf2.0-dev installed ? libsdl1.2-dev ?


And by the way ... sudo ./configure : is wrong.
Only 'make install' needs sudo , not ./configure , not make.

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Thanks, installing libsdl-ttf2.0-dev solved that problem indeed!
After that I had to install libsdl-image-dev, libdsl-mixer-dev and libdsl-net-dev.

After that I got the message;
I installed libboost-dev (first using software center, second using apt-get), but the problem persists...

Besides this last problem, I'm getting the feeling I'm doing something wrong...
Is everybody who has to compile this code installing all these lib's one-by-one?

Edit;
O, I needed libboost-all-dev instead of the default libboost-dev.
Now I can continue searching for the other missing lib's...

I'll second the comment about sudo on ./configure - only ever install as root. If that turns out to be the problem I'll mumble mutter grumble... anyway:

http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=25247
there are neat discussions about all the different ways this error can appear on the wesnoth forums... seems I should have added the explicit install for libsdl-ttf-dev as well ... that would be:

sudo apt-get install libsdl-ttf2.0-dev

the most common cause of the error is missing dev libs for the main libs.

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I've forgotten why I sudoed configure... Maybe it was preventive
But the tar-command I had to sudo, because the installation instructions said to go to /usr/src/ and I didn't have the permissions to make directories there without sudo...

The first time I tried it, I created a directory as root and chmodded it. That's probably a better way to go then?

ANyway, the configure now finally succeeded.
But make gives me;
My first try would be to sudo it, but I'll wait for your comments before I do something stupid again

/usr/src/ is not meant for building anything.
Or anywhere else in " / " , except /home/...

Default is : /home/<name>/tmp/ ( Or another directory in /home/<name>/ )

.. And good luck with 'Battle for Wesnoth' + libboost1.40-all-dev !
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As far as I know, only kernel source should be in /usr/src. I always compile things in my /home/user directory, /usr/local/src might be a good alternative if you really don't want to use /home to compile things.

Probably a good idea if you show us where these instructions come from. Presumably they did not come with the tarball?

http://wiki.wesnoth.org/WesnothBinar...ux#Compiling_2

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Yes, don't believe everything, you read on the internet.
/usr/src/ is definitely a misunderstanding.
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