Downloading and Compiling

I have listed below the procedure to go from a cleanly installed Ubuntu 10.10 AMD64 system, to being able to compile and run the version of Arx Fatalis available from https://github.com/lubosz/ArxFatalis.git

Your mileage may vary with other distros, but you should be able to figure out the packages you need from your particular package manager.

Downloading From Github

You will need git installed on your system, for example on aptitude based systems:

sudo apt-get install git

Your package manager will probably prompt you to install other packages, so just say yes to those.

I prefer to work in a Code/ directory under my home directory, and for the sake of this example I will make a folder called lubosz in Code/

cd ~/Code

mkdir lubosz && cd lubosz

You are now ready to clone the repository, type:

git clone https://github.com/lubosz/ArxFatalis.git

This creates a directory called ArxFatalis and downloads the current version of the source code from the git server.

cd ArxFatalis

And we are now ready to set up our build enviroment.

Setting up Build Enviroment

We will need cmake, a gcc toolchain with multilib support, wine and the wine development headers, as well as several other libraries.

sudo apt-get install cmake g++ g++-multilib wine wine-dev zlib1g-dev lib32z1-dev libjpeg62-dev

Compiling

Now you should be ready to configure and compile. Run cmake:

cmake .

And now you should be able to compile with

make

Running the executable

Currently we require wine, so the command to run arx is:

wine arx.exe.so

You will need to obtain a copy of the data files from a commerical copy of Arx, or use the demo data files, put these in your ArxFatalis directory and you are ready to go!