Compiling 1.1.5 on Ubuntu 5.10

Thanatos · Post by **Thanatos** » June 22nd, 2006, 9:48 pm

Hey guys...
this is my first self-compiling ever, so please give me a chance:

Followed the instructions on http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/CompilingWesnoth for compiling.
All packages that I should install due to this page are installed. (Were all in the sources except libsdl1.2 which is replaced in Ubuntu by libsdl1.2debian - so says apt-get).

Up to now the following errors occured:

1) During ./configure: No c-compiler found. -> installed gcc from the sources. Run ./configure again, problem 1 solved.

2) configure: error C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check.
Any ideas?

Than

Post by **torangan** » June 23rd, 2006, 12:06 am

I guess you just got the gcc package without the g++ package which is for C++?

Thanatos · Post by **Thanatos** » June 23rd, 2006, 10:34 am

Thanks... installed the standard Ubuntu-g++-package and ./configure worked absolutely fine...

But now comes problem number 3:

If I type "make", it only says:

Code: Select all

bash: make: command not found

So which pakets do I need either?

Post by **torangan** » June 23rd, 2006, 12:07 pm

Perhaps you could try out the most obvious answers yourself? By great wonder make is usually contained in a package called make. If you don't know the correct package, just install something and if it was wrong remove it again until you find the right packages. To compile one needs quite a lot of helper tools but usually they're all grouped together into a package by your distribution to be installed as a block. Don't know about Ubuntu, never used it.

Post by **Soliton** » June 23rd, 2006, 12:31 pm

There are several simple ways on a debian based system to make sure you have everything to compile a program and/or search for a package.

apt-get build-dep wesnoth - gets all necessary dependencies to build wesnoth
aptitude install build-essential - gets all necessary packages to build programs in general
apt-cache search string - to search for some package

You should really read a bit of documentation for your distribution's package manager; there is plenty.

Thanatos · Post by **Thanatos** » June 23rd, 2006, 2:44 pm

Thanks @soliton: That will help me a lot...

Worked all fine, the game is running and looks awesome

Finally all I needed was just the information about the installation of the build-esentials... for my first compilin ever I think this was quite not so hard as I thought.

To prevent those of you which can't hear such stupid beginner questions like mine any longer: Should I edit the Wiki-page about CompilingWesnoth and add a line for the build-essentials? Something like:

If you're compiling for your first time, you will have to make sure, that all needed building packages are installed. On Debian-based System (e.g. Debian, Ubuntu) do

aptitude install build-essential

And by the way my last question - because also this is not totally clear in the Wiki: Is it correct, that I will have to execute "make uninstall" in the /home/thanatos/wesnoth-1.1.5/ directory?

Thanks for your help.

Than

Post by **torangan** » June 23rd, 2006, 4:12 pm

Thanatos wrote:To prevent those of you which can't hear such stupid beginner questions like mine any longer:

We all were beginners once. But when you already know that you need to install something and search for a tool called make, looking for something named make is obvious enough that you should be able to find it yourself.
The harsh answer would have been - ask in the Ubunto forums since those are the right place to learn how to do the basic setup of your system. Your problem is not specific to Wesnoth at all!

Thanatos · Post by **Thanatos** » June 23rd, 2006, 4:57 pm

torangan wrote:Your problem is not specific to Wesnoth at all!

Hmm, maybe you're right... didn't realize that when I started the topic.
Will think twice next time where to post... for this time it's too late...

Than

lalitnagrath · Post by **lalitnagrath** » June 5th, 2007, 7:18 pm

hi ,
i have ubuntu fiesty fawn (7.04 )
nd i have same error -

checking for OGG support in SDL_mixer... no
configure: error: *** SDL_mixer has no OGG support! You need SDL_mixer with OGG support

i tried ./configure --help .
but it doesnt have any such option as --enable-ogg or like wise!

i downaloaded the 1.2.4 version!
plz help !

Regards
Lalit Nagrath

Post by **vonHalenbach** » June 5th, 2007, 10:16 pm

lalitnagrath wrote:hi ,
i have ubuntu fiesty fawn (7.04 )
nd i have same error -

checking for OGG support in SDL_mixer... no
configure: error: *** SDL_mixer has no OGG support! You need SDL_mixer with OGG support

i tried ./configure --help .
but it doesnt have any such option as --enable-ogg or like wise!

i downaloaded the 1.2.4 version!
plz help !

Regards
Lalit Nagrath

You need the "libogg0" and the "libogg-dev" packages as well as "libsdl-mixer1.2" and the "libsdl-mixer1.2-dev" packages. All debian based distributions have the needed files to build a software from the sources in these "-dev" packages, which have to be downloaded separately. If a dependency is not solved you need most probably the -dev package. Remember this.

Greetings from another Feisty user