Building Bitfighter

Linux

Bitfighter should build on any major flavor of Linux. It has been tested and is known to work on Ubuntu and Centos.

The Bitfighter client depends on Freeglut and the Lua development libraries. Freeglut is not needed to build a Bitfighter dedicated server (without client portions).

Bitfighter must be compiled with the g++ compiler, which is not included in many Linux distributions. SVN is required to obtain the source code.

To get the Bitfighter source, use SVN (check the repository for the latest version):

svn co https://zap.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/zap/release-013a bitfighter

The game will build out-of-the-box on many distros. For details of the various build options, please see the top-level Makefile.

Building full game client on a clean install of Ubuntu These instructions should work on both 32 and 64 bit platforms.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install subversion g++ libreadline6-dev
sudo apt-get install freeglut-dev libopenal-dev libalut-dev
 
# Get the source code
svn co https://zap.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/zap/[version] bitfighter
 
# Build the game -- the standard options should work
cd bitfighter
make
 
# Copy required files into exe folder:
cd exe
cp -r ../installer/levels .
cp -r ../installer/robots .
cp -r ../installer/sfx .
cp -r ../installer/screenshots .

Building a dedicated server on a typical clean Centos virtual server instance

yum -y update
yum -y install subversion
yum -y install gcc
yum -y install gcc-c++
yum -y install zip        # For archiving purposes
 
yum install -y ncurses-devel     # Needed on some servers
yum install -y readline-devel    # Needed on some servers
 
 
# Get the source code
svn co https://zap.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/zap/[version] bitfighter
 
# Build the dedicated server (called bitfighterd)
cd bitfighter
make dedicated 
 
# Copy required files into exe folder:
cd exe
cp -r ../installer/levels .
cp -r ../installer/robots .
cp -r ../installer/sfx .
cp -r ../installer/screenshots .

Windows

Bitfighter can be built with MS Visual C++ 2010 Express Edition, a free download from Microsoft, and a much-improved IDE over previous versions.

To compile, you'll need to obtain a few files directly from Microsoft -- see the readme.txt in the folder win_include_do_not_distribute.

OS X

Bitfighter builds on OS X using xcode.