BUILD.md

Compiling Homeworld SDL on Linux

x86_64 (intel/amd 64-bit)

This is only a quickstart, more information can be found in the documentation files next to this one.

cd Linux
./bootstrap
../configure
make

The configuration step has a lot of flags, run ../configure --help to see them. (Notably the --disable-linux-fixme flag)

Now put the compiled executable src/homeworld in a directory with the required assets.

For HomeworldSDL.big see Packaging HomeworldSDL.big

You are now ready to run the game and configure the OpenGL renderer

x86 (intel/amd 32-bit)

This is if you want to cross-compile the game to 32bit even if your machine is 64bit.

The process is the same as for x86_64, except for the ../configure step, as follows:

cd Linux
./bootstrap
CFLAGS='-m32' ../configure --disable-x86_64  # here
make

Note: this will output a binary without debug symbols. Building a 32b binary with debug symbols on a 64b machine is feasible (I have done it for debugging), but not supported by autoconf and therefore not very straightforward.

Packaging HomeworldSDL.big

Note: compiling biggie requires compiled objects from Linux/src/. Which means you must first compile the game.

From the root of this repository:

cd tools/biggie
./biggie-Linux-compile.sh
cd ../../HomeworldSDL_big
./convert_directory_to_big_file

You should now have a HomeworldSDL.big file in the root of the repo.