Need Help Compiling on Ubuntu

[howwitty]

Hello, I am compiling Wesnoth 1.18.5 for Ubuntu and ran into some problems. I have very little experience, so I first attempted to follow this tutorial from 2013, but all of the dependencies were outdated. I searched how to do all of the things, got a concise summary from AI, and installed all of the dependencies twice. I think I installed the dependencies I needed for compiling because now I am compiling with cmake.

Apparently there was an easier way to do this with flatpak, but I could not figure out how to get 1.18.5 for Ubuntu there. Should I share the binary on github when it is done?

One of the problems I ran into was the location of the source and decompression. The wget syntax was bad enough that I could not find it and had to use Firefox to download instead and then untar with the instructions in the readme. If you know what is wrong with this code the AI gave me, please let me know. I think the asterisk is replaced with the version number, but couldn't run wget properly.

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wget www.wesnoth.org # Replace x with latest minor version
tar -xf wesnoth-*.tar.bz2

[Pentarctagon]

Rather than AI, see https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/blob ... INSTALL.md. For Ubuntu specifically, you can just copy/paste the apt install commands from https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/blob ... 404-master.

[Wedge009]

I just run

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scons -j (number of concurrent jobs)

If there are errors, it's just a matter of installing the dependencies (and perhaps forcing a refresh of the cache).