Building

This page will show you how to build OpenSpades

Notes

• If you wish just to download the latest dev snapshot, you can go to the Snapshots page
• Compiling OpenSpades can take quite some time depending on you computer settings
  • You computer may be slowed down during the build procces
  • If this happens, its recommended to leave it alone during the build proccess.

Index

• Windows

  • Visual Studio 2015
  • Visual studio 2013 (no longer supported)
  • CodeBlocks IDE (not available yet)
  • Command-line (not available yet)

• GNU/Linux

  • Debian, Ubuntu and other debian-derived distros (WIP)
  • Generic Linux (WIP)

• Mac OS X

  • XCode (WIP/help wanted)

Windows (7, 8, 8.1, 10)

Visual Studio 2015

• If you haven't already, install CMake for Windows
• Download the latest source code
• Add external sources and dependencies to OpenSpades
  • Navigate to Sources/Externals/
  • Download the external source code
  • Extract it inside Sources/Externals, merging the lib and include folders
• Run CMake
  • Open CMake GUI
  • Set the source directory as your root of the source code (e.g E:\openspades)
  • Set the build directory as Root/openspades.msvc (eg. E:\openspades\OpenSpades.msvc).
  • Press configure button
  • If it asks to create the OpenSpades.msvc folder, confirm
  • Set the compiler as Visual Studio 14 (2015)
  • Make sure its not the 64-bit one
  • Press generate button
• Open openspades\openspades.msvc\OpenSpades.sln in Visual Studio 2015
• Build the solution. The recommended build type is MinSizeRel or Release for non-developers.
  • The build output will be at openspades\openspades.msvc\bin\BUILD_TYPE
• Copy all .dll files from Source/Externals/lib to the build output directory.
• To get audio working, download a Windows release of OpenSpades, extract it, and copy the following dlls to the build output directory:
  • For OpenAL audio: openal32.dll
  • For YSR audio: YSRSpades.dll, libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll, libstdc++-6.dll, pthreadGC2.dll
• OPTIONAL: Download the Non-free pak and copy it to the Resources folder inside your build output directory, which is probably E:/Projects/openspades/openspades.msvc/bin/BUILD_TYPE/Resources. You can also copy the paks contained in Official Mods/ folder of OpenSpades 0.0.12b to add more fonts and improve localization support of your build.

Note: If you messed up the CMake process, open again the CMake gui, go to File and select Delete cache.

Note 2: Having trouble? Watch this video (stub))