OpenUT HOWTO

by Jeremy Weatherford

This is a pseudo-howto on getting OpenUT running, based solely on my personal experiences. Everyone's adventure will likely be different, but maybe this will help you out.

Prerequisites:

• successfully installed copy of Unreal Tournament for Linux
  
  • Note that this means you need the CD. Go buy it! :)
• gcc 2.95.2 from egcs.cygnus.com
  
  • ncftpget ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/gcc-2.95.2/gcc-2.95.2.tar.gz
  • tar -xvzf gcc-2.95.2.tar.gz
  • cd gcc-2.95.2
  • mkdir objdir
  • cd objdir
  • ../configure      # yes, that's parent directory/configure
  • make bootstrap
  • su -c "make install"
• SDL >= 1.1 from www.devolution.com
  
  • Compile and install.
  • I had to copy the SDL-1.1.2/include/*.h files to /usr/include/SDL/ by hand. Not sure why they weren't installed.
• SDL_mixer 1.0.5 from www.devolution.com
  • Compile and install.
• libMikMod 3.1.9 from mikmod.darkorb.net
  
  • Compile and install.
  • I needed to copy libmikmod-3.1.9/include/mikmod.h to /usr/include/mikmod.h by hand. You may need to do the same.
• Other miscellaneous packages:
  • Obtain copies of /usr/include/GL/gl.h and glx.h somehow. I have Mesa installed on my system, but the headers weren't there. I copied them from another system with Mesa installed.
  • Install the xpm-devel package if neccessary to get /usr/X11R6/include/X11/xpm.h
• CVS checkout tree
  An OpenUT directory will be created by the following commands:
  • cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.OpenUT.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/OpenUT login
  • (hit enter at the password prompt for anonymous)
  • cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.OpenUT.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/OpenUT co OpenUT
  This will start the download of the OpenUT source tree.
• Directories from the install:
  Copy these directories from your installed version to the OpenUT directory
  IE, cd OpenUT; cp ../UnrealTournament/System ./System -R
  Required for compilation:
  • System
  Required to play:
  • Help
  • Logs
  • Maps
  • Music
  • NetGamesUSA.com
  • Sounds
  • Textures
  • Web

Okay, now that you're done with the prerequisites... :)

Compilation:

• cd OpenUT; make

This was sufficient for me to get OpenUT compiled. My version currently dies quietly on startup, I'm building a debug version now to find out why. :) (edit makefile-header, change line 26 to BUILD = debug)

Good luck!

Jeremy Weatherford, xidus@xidus.net