by Jon Rafkind
Updated on 04/11/2018
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- Requirements to build
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If you are reading this you might already have the source. If not get it from the Paintown Repository.
Additional data which has collections of characters, levels and other items can be obtained in the Paintown Data Repository.
Note to distribution maintainers it is recommended to omit the data from the above repository since it may contain copyrighted material.
The included data in the Paintown Repository should be sufficient for running the application (which excludes levels and content).
You need the following things to compile Paintown:
- GNU build utils (gcc and g++)
- Software construction tools (either or)
- zlib
- libpng
- pthreads - If you are on Unix you should have this or you can install glibc and you will get it. (On Windows get it here)
- freetype - Installed on most Unix systems along with X11. (On windows get it here)
- Scripting
- python and its headers (usually this comes with python)
- Allegro 5.x
- R-Tech1
- You can clone it directly in the paintown directory and it will be built automatically if using Scons otherwise you will need to install it separately
You can build paintown with either Scons or Cmake.
- DEBUG - set to 0/1 (on/off in cmake) to enable or disable debugging
- LLVM - set to 0/1 (on/off in cmake) to build with clang
- DATA_PATH - set this to the desired data path
- With Scons it will default to data
- With Cmake it will default to
${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/data - *Note: if planning on installing recommend setting it to something like /usr/local/games/paintown
$ make or $ scons
$ mkdir b
$ cd b
$ cmake ..
$ make
Note, this script hasn't been updated so it may be invalid.
There is a script that will install the necessary packages and then invoke the compilation scripts.
Type this:
$ ./easy-compile-ubuntu
After building with Scons use the install script below
$ ./install.sh -d <data> -b <bin>
The script will prompt you to input these directories if you do not give -d and/or -b.
After running install.sh (assuming default values for and ) you can run
$ /usr/games/paintown
After building with Cmake run sudo make install see notes in Compilation about the data directory
Copy the binary and data somewhere. Otherwise use the prepackaged installers.
A python engine has been added to paintown so you can script a level. See scripting.txt for more details.
Note, that these are old instructions and may be invalid.
$ scons
How to build a .dmg file of paintown:
$ scons static
$ misc/make-osx-bundle
This will create paintown-x-y.app/ and paintown-x-y.dmg.
You need buildDmg.pl I have placed the perl script in the misc directory, so just put that in a directory that is part of your path.
Type
$ scons env=mingw
c:\> cd path-to-paintown c:\path-to-paintown> scons
To build a statically linked binary give the 'static' target $ scons static
c:\> cd path-to-paintown
c:\path-to-paintown> mkdir b
c:\path-to-paintown> cd b
c:\path-to-paintown> cmakesetup ..
c:\path-to-paintown> make
The executable will end up in bin/paintown.exe
Don't use cygwin's tools. Install python/scons/mingw for regular windows and use that.
$ export CYGWIN=1
$ c:\progra~1\Python24\Scripts\scons
Note it may be easier to get the gcc4.5 environment from svn: http://svn.code.sourceforge.net/p/paintown/code/build-environments/gcc4.5 Get unxutils for things like mv, rm, cp - http://www.sf.net/projects/unxutils Find the .zip. It unzips as usr\local\wbin, so put that in your path or just copy all the files in usr\local\wbin to your c:\mingw\bin directory. For libpng/zlib see here: http://tjaden.strangesoft.net/loadpng/mingw.html Python 2.4.4 (yes this is old but the game is hardcoded to use it): http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.4.4/ Add c:\python24 to your PATH Copy libs\libpython24.a to c:\mingw\lib Scons - http://www.scons.org Then add c:\python24\scripts to your PATH pthreads - http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/ get pthreads-win32-2-8-0-release.exe, let it unzip somewhere, then copy the stuff in prebuilt\include to your mingw\include directory. copy the .a files to c:\mingw\lib allegro - http://alleg.sf.net get the 4.2.3 package and dx70_mgw.zip Get freetype from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/freetype.htm. Copy the resulting headers into your include path. Dont copy in freetype2, just the path underneath it, freetype2\freetype. Gnu regex: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/regex.htm Use the dependancy walker: http://www.dependencywalker.com/ to check that all required dlls are around.
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