Terminus Est

Terminus Est is John's awesome space shooter. See his Soloforge website.

I am hoping to help him build it under linux. Here's John's "getting started" list...

There is some stuff in here on getting set up to build SDL apps with
KDeveloper: http://gpwiki.org/index.php/SDL

You will need SDL, plus the SDL_image and SDL_gfx support libs.  
Available from: http://www.libsdl.org/index.php

And the FMOD sound system from http://www.fmod.org.

Typically I'll be using either Fedora or Gentoo during my porting effort.

FEDORA

1 Install SDL and fmod, so easy!!

yum install SDL_gfx
yum install SDL_image
yum install fmod

Mar 19 22:42:01 Installed: SDL_gfx.i386 2.0.13-2.2.fc4.rf 
Mar 19 22:45:23 Installed: SDL_image.i386 1.2.4-1.2.fc4.rf
Mar 19 23:11:05 Installed: fmod.i386 3.74.1-1.2.fc4.rf

J: Huh. Does that yum app go out and get the latest version too? Slick. I will get some source control up and running today.

M: yep it auto-updates everything to the latest stable versions, including tracking down dependencies.

2 Grab the source - John is using subversion - very l337!

yum install subversion
cd development
mkdir terminus
cd terminus
svn checkout http://xxxxx/terminus/

and there it is!

3 Build it

sdl-config tells you what you need on the gcc command line:

[m@thedigitalmachine terminus]$ sdl-config --libs 
-L/usr/lib -lSDL -lpthread
[m@thedigitalmachine terminus]$ sdl-config --static-libs
-L/usr/lib -lSDL -lpthread -lm -ldl -lasound -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXext

So let's try this:

g++ main.cpp -o main `sdl-config --cflags --static-libs`

Here's what we got, we're missing fmod libs:

In file included from system.hpp:17, 
                 from startup.hpp:8,
                 from main.cpp:8:
util/audio.hpp:10:23: fmod/fmod.h: No such file or directory

Try again:

g++ main.cpp -o main `sdl-config --cflags --static-libs` -L/usr/lib/fmod