This package contains the data files of the game Zelda: Mystery of Solarus XD. This quest is a free, open-source game that works with Solarus, an open-source Zelda-like 2D game engine. To play this game, you need Solarus. We assume in this readme that Solarus is already installed.
See our development blog to get more information and documentation about Solarus and our games.
You need to specify to the solarus_run binary the path of the quest data files
to use. The binary solarus_run accepts two forms of quest paths:
- a directory having a subdirectory named
datawith all data inside, - a directory having a zip archive
data.solaruswith all data inside.
Thus, to run zsxd, if the current directory is the one that
contains the data subdirectory (and this readme), you can type:
$ solarus_run .Or without arguments, if Solarus was compiled with the default quest set to ".":
$ solarus_runIf you want to install zsxd, cmake and zip are recommended. Just type:
$ cmake .
$ makeThis generates the data.solarus archive that contains all data files
of the quest. You can then install it with
$ make installThis installs the following files (assuming that the install directory
is /usr/local):
- the quest data archive (
data.solarus) in/usr/local/share/solarus/zsxd/ - a script called
zsxdin/usr/local/bin/
The zsxd script launches solarus_run with the appropriate command-line argument
to specify the quest path.
This means that you can launch the zsxd quest with the command:
$ zsxdwhich is equivalent to:
$ solarus_run /usr/local/share/solarus/zsxdYou may want to install zsxd in another directory (e.g. so that no root access is necessary). You can specify this directory as a parameter of cmake:
$ cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/your_directory .
$ make
$ make installThis installs the files described above, with the
/usr/local prefix replaced by the one you specified.
The script generated runs solarus_run with the appropriate quest path.