Struggled to build on Linux

[gjstreicher]

I managed to install and run this game on Linux, but I had to do the following before running make:

sudo apt install cmake libxss-dev libxxf86vm-dev libxkbfile-dev libxv-dev libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev libxi-dev -y

[ghost]

And? Do you want to uninstall it? Those packages are necessary for building, you can uninstall it.

You can do so with sudo apt uninstall cmake libxss-dev libxxf86vm-dev libxkbfile-dev libxv-dev libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev libxi-dev, notice there is an absence of -y? That is to make sure you do not uninstall it accidentally.

If you already ran the first command, and want to remove the dependencies (apt shows you that there are dependencies that are not automatically removed when uninstalling), you can do that with sudo apt autoremove.

[gjstreicher]

Oh, I actually mean that the instructions for Unix-like systems didn't include these steps. So, I thought I'd raise it. I guess I could have communicated that better.

[ghost]

I guess I misunderstood.

[SomethingGeneric]

Seems like an easy PR to me :)

Edit: just saw one is pending

[ryu-ketsueki]

Needs clang as well. I happen to not have it installed on Tumbleweed

[ghost]

Should installing build-essentials work? I have not really tested it myself.

[SomethingGeneric]

Yeah it did for me

[ryu-ketsueki]

I recommend specify which packages the build require and the user most likely may not have instead of only target Ubuntu-based distros and tell to install a metapackage for Ubuntu, as other users may be using Fedora, Archlinux or, in my case, openSUSE. There is no build-essentials metapackage on Tumbleweed. But regardless of that, I managed to build it after installing clang.

[CrezyDud]

this would be ubuntu specific
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