HowToBuildStendhal

Building Stendhal is very simple if you use ant and you satisfy the dependencies.

Requirements

To compile Stendhal you will need:

• stendhal source as a stendhal-version-src.tar.gz
  http://arianne.sourceforge.net/?arianne_url=games/game_stendhal#downloads
• Java SDK 1.5
  http://java.sun.com or higher
• Ant 1.6
  http://ant.apache.org

Build

Build using ant

First you need ant properly installed on your system to build Stendhal.

Then unpack the stendhal source gzip. From command line:

tar xzf stendhal-version-src.tar.gz
cd stendhal-version

Now just write:

ant

This will build a full set of JAR files at stendhal-version/build/lib folder.

Client files

build/lib/stendhal-version.jar

build/lib/stendhal-data-version.jar

build/lib/stendhal-sound-data-version.jar

Server files

build/lib/stendhal-server-version.jar

build/lib/stendhal-xmlconf-version.jar

build/lib/stendhal-maps-version.jar

If you want to create a full set of release packages you can write

ant dist

This will create binaries such as

Client files

build/stendhal-version.zip

build/stendhal-FULL-version.zip

Server files

build/stendhal-server-version.zip

Source files

build/stendhal-src-version.tar.gz

Build using IDE

You can also Configure a development environment (IDE).

Trouble shooting

If you have the message error:

stendhal_source/build.xml:42: Could not create task or type of type: replaceregexp.

For linux users this is corrected by installing the "ant-apache-regexp" package. If you use debian or another debian dist (like Ubuntu) this is included in the "ant-optional" package.

Finally

When you have successfully built Stendhal please read the install documentation. It is available on the Wiki at InstallingStendhal.

In future if you wish to just create the client and server jars (not zips and all release packages) then

ant clean compile

will suffice. Remember to "ant clean" before you "ant build" everytime - this is done automatically if you "ant dist", however.

CVS

Assuming you have CVS installed, you can instead download our source from our CVS Head:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@arianne.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/arianne login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@arianne.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/arianne co -P stendhal

Which will check out a copy of the stendhal source into a folder called stendhal. Then follow the steps to build using ant as before.

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