Building (Open) AstroMenace on Debian

To start, download the sources from http://sourceforge.net/projects/openastromenace/, install the required dependencies (ReadMe.txt will tell you, or you can try just building it and see what it complains about missing), and build (cd build; cmake ..; make;).

While trying to build (Open) AstroMenace on Debian I encountered the following error:


OpenAstroMenaceSVN/AstroMenaceSource/Core/RendererInterface/OGL_Draw3D.cpp:38: error: ‘PFNGLCLIENTACTIVETEXTUREPROC’ does not name a type

Googling only turned up this, which was exactly the problem I encountered, but offered no solution.  I figured out it was missing a definition from some OpenGL header.  So I traced back the includes, and found the following text in OpenAstroMenaceSVN/AstroMenaceSource/Core/Base.h

#ifdef WIN32

        ...

#endif

#if defined(__APPLE__) && defined(__MACH__)

       ...

#else

        #define __glext_h_  // Don't let gl.h include glext.h

        #include      // Header File For The OpenGL32 Library

        #include     // Header File For The GLu32 Library

        #undef __glext_h_

#endif

Now, it has the comment "Don't let gl.h include glext.h".  However, I don't see why not!  Because when I comment out the #define and #undef statements, it compiles fine!  It should look like:

#else

        //#define __glext_h_  // Don't let gl.h include glext.h

        #include      // Header File For The OpenGL32 Library

        #include     // Header File For The GLu32 Library

        //#undef __glext_h_

#endif

So then it compiled correctly, but still got a very strange error when linking:

Linking CXX executable AstroMenace

c++: `sdl-config: No such file or directory

make[2]: *** [AstroMenace] Error 1

make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/AstroMenace.dir/all] Error 2

make: *** [all] Error 2

It seems like some sort of quotation mismatch error.  I went through the CMake setup file, and it seemed fine. So instead, I just tried to manually link it myself.  I found the linker command it was trying to execute in CMakeFiles/AstroMenace.dir/link.txt, but I couldn't find anything wrong with it, so I copied the contents, put them into a terminal, and pressed enter. For some reason, this now worked!  For reference, this is what the file contained for me: http://pastebin.com/U8UifLAq

Once it built, I then went to download the necessary data files (under the vfs section of openastromenace downloads on sourceforge, download the data, and a language), and extracted their contents into the build directory.

Then run ./AstroMenace and .... well...it works for me at this point!