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.

Setting up Build Enviroment

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

sudo apt-get install git

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

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

Cloning the code repository

I prefer to work in a Code/ directory under my home directory.

cd ~/Code

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 lubosz's current master branch of the source code from github.

cd ArxFatalis

Compiling

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

cmake .

And now you should be able to compile with

make -j`getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN`

Running the executable

cd bin

WINEDEBUG=-all ./arx.exe

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 bin directory and you are ready to go!

You have to change the pak files to small cases. SFX.pak => sfx.pak.

For running arx in a debugger, see Debugging