HowToBuildStendhal
Building Stendhal is very simple if you use ant and you satisfy the dependencies.
You can also Configure a development environment (IDE).
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
Optionally:
We do not include dependencies in the source download, to keep the size small. They are in CVS, however, and you can download them via the CVS webfrontend at http://arianne.cvs.sourceforge.net/arianne/stendhal/libs/
Build
Build using ant
First you need ant properly installed on your system to build Stendhal.
Then unpack the stendhal source gzip.
cd path/to/stendhal source cd stendhal
Now add any missing dependencies to the lib folder: TODO: check what these are
Now just write:
ant dist
This will build a full set of JAR files at stendhal/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
Webstart
In order for webstart to work, the client .jar-files have to be signed. There is some documentation on http://java.sun.com how this works. So I will put here only a small piece of information to get it integrated into the build process:
Put your private key into a file called keystore.ks into the stendhal-root folder Create a file called build.ant-private.properties with theses lines (replacing the values):
keystore.alias=miguelangelblanchlardin@hotmail.com keystore.password=secret
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.