Getting started with development - Thargoid/pioneer GitHub Wiki

Pioneer is managed using Git, and is stored here on Github. The official repository is the best one to get. To get it:

git clone git://github.com/pioneerspacesim/pioneer.git

This will get you on the "master" branch, which is where new code is merged. This is the latest and greatest development and is quite unstable. To build a specific alpha, you need to checkout the appropriate release tag:

git checkout alpha9

An MSVC 2008 project file can be found in the win32/vc2008 folder. Open this project file and Pioneer should build just fine. All dependencies are provided so you don't need to compile any libraries.

Copy the .dll files from win32/vc2008 into the root folder (the one containing data, src, win32 directories), and you will be able to run the pioneer .exe file you just compiled.

• libtool
• sigc++-2.0
• freetype2
• GL and GLU
• GLEW
• SDL 1.2
• SDL_image_

Since pioneer is currently only available from the source repository, you also need autoconf and automake in order to generate the ./configure script (by running ./bootstrap)

You also need git to check the source code out from the repository.

These may work on other versions of Ubuntu, and possibly Debian or their derivatives too.

sudo apt-get install libsigc++-2.0-dev libglut3-dev libglew1.5-dev libsdl1.2-dev libvorbis-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev dh-autoreconf git libfreetype6-dev

sudo apt-get install libsigc++-2.0-dev freeglut3-dev libglew1.5-dev libsdl1.2-dev libvorbis-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev dh-autoreconf git libfreetype6-dev

./bootstrap
./configure
make
ln -s ../data ./src/data

Currently Pioneer runs from where it is built, and doesn't require (or work with) '''make install'''. To run it:

./src/pioneer

For developers, gdb can be used for debugging

gdb ./src/pioneer
run

Bugs, and feature requests, should be logged on the issue tracker.