[Solved] OXCE+ installation steps on Ubuntu linux

[niculinux]

After have been hunting  the forum high and low actually managed to run the openxcom extended+  executable on linux!

So please go to the Meridian builds page here

And than install SDL libs provided in the repositories

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sudo apt install --no-install-recommends libsdl1.2debian libsdl-gfx1.2 libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-mixer1.2
Worked in Ubuntu 16.04, so yaml libs seems to be non necessary, unless you want to make anotehr and/or a custom build (it's used to compile the ececutable)

Hope this may help

Edit: better always use the --no-install-recommends parameter

[Stoddard]

Worked in Ubuntu 16.04, so yaml libs seems to be non necessary, unless you want to make anotehr and/or a custom build (it's used to compile the ececutable)

YAML lib is compiled in statically, thus no need to install it.

[tkzv]

YAML lib is compiled in statically, thus no need to install it.

How do you do it? Did you make your own yaml-cpp package, or do you use somebody's else? Could you point me at a good manual on making Ubuntu packages? When I tried OXCE+ on Ubuntu, I didn't find 0.5.3 and failed to make my own. And the site with distributions was inaccessible.

[Yankes]

one solution is download source code and compile it as part of binary.

example of this is
https://github.com/Yankes/OpenXcom/blob/OpenXcomExtended/src/Makefile.mxe
only caveat is this is for windows exe but still gcc build chain and it could be change to linux binary

[tkzv]

one solution is download source code and compile it as part of binary.

example of this is
https://github.com/Yankes/OpenXcom/blob/OpenXcomExtended/src/Makefile.mxe
only caveat is this is for windows exe but still gcc build chain and it could be change to linux binary

Thanks, I can figure it out from here.