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1Installation Instructions
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4Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005,
52006, 20007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
6
7This file is free documentation; the Free Software Foundation gives
8unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it.
9
10Basic Installation
11==================
12
13The proposed standard build and installation method will be using cmake;
14cmake is a cross-platform build system available from http://www.cmake.org.
15CMake 2.6 is required.
16
17Windows
18-------
19
20 * create a build directory from within the desired branch e.g. trunk
21 * cd build
22 * run cmake: cmake ..
23 * some environmental variables that should be set:
24   * OPENALDIR: points to location of the OpenAL directory
25   * SDLDIR: points to the location of the SDL directory
26   * FFMPEGDIR: points to the location of the FFMPEG directory
27
28Useful Command Line Options
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30
31If running cmake from the command line, some useful options to pass to are:
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33 * -G "NMake Makefiles": generates makefiles for nmake
34 * -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:STRING=c:\openlibraries
35 * -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release
36 * -D WITH_PYTHON_EXTENSIONS:BOOL=FALSE
37
38To get a list of all possible generators, run cmake --help
39
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