MG/Development

For people who would like to work on MegaGlest, the MegaGlest team has tried to work hard to make things as easy for the users as possible. Below is a list of links to try to assist anyone who is interested in helping with development or just to learn for your own enjoyment.

MegaGlest is hosted at sourceforge.net: http://sourceforge.net/projects/megaglest/

You can download the full and ready-to-use versions from here (source/data/binaries):

http://sourceforge.net/projects/megaglest/files/ (change into the megaglest_x.y.z directory)

Sourceforge also hosts the MegaGlest subversion repository, this is where the source code is kept. More about this below.

Accessing subversion

• Getting The Code
• Project Structure

Compiling

• Linux Compiling (cmake)
• Windows Compiling (VC++)
• CodeBlocks Compiling
• Mac Compiling (XCode)
• FreeBSD Compiling (cmake)
• Misc Scripts

Installers

Installers make it easy for people to get the software setup on their computers, so when the MegaGlest team makes a new stable release, they also prepare/build Installers. As of v3.5.1 megaglest's build system support 'make install' style installation on Linux based platforms. The following is an example of how to do this in Ubuntu:

cd trunk
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make -j 3
sudo make install
megaglest

Testing

Once a new revision is successfully compiled, newly added features need extensive testing so that a stable and working version is shipped.

Testing the game menu

If there are problems with the game related to the game menu, edit source/shared_lib/include/platform/sdl/thread.h and uncomment the following line (remove the leading double slash) before recompiling.

//#define DEBUG_MUTEXES

See Also

• MegaGlest