Fs2 open on Linux/Compiling PCS2

This is a quick guide for compiling PCS2 on Linux

(it's rough so far because I didn't know anything about scons before today...)

Ubuntu 12.04 (and derivatives like Linux Mint 13)

Install the following dependencies (you may already have some of these if you've previously compiled FSO / wxLauncher / wxFRED)

$ sudo apt-get install scons git libdevil-dev wx2.8-headers libwxbase2.8-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev libwxgtk2.8-dbg libboost-regex1.46-dev libboost-system1.46-dev libboost-filesystem1.46-dev libsdl1.2-dev

Checkout a copy of the code & change to the new directory

$ git clone git://alliance.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/alliance/PCS2
$ cd PCS2

Modify scons to include the SDL libs; create a file containing the text of the patch below

diff --git a/SConstruct b/SConstruct
index 5619622..948ffeb 100644
--- a/SConstruct
+++ b/SConstruct
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import string
 defines = ['UNIX', 'HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H', 'HAVE_SYS_STAT_H', 'HAVE_UNISTD_H', 'ILUT_USE_OPENGL']
 include_path = ['pugixml']
 cc_flags = ['-Wall']
-libs = ['GL', 'GLU', 'boost_system', 'boost_filesystem', 'boost_regex', 'IL', 'ILU', 'ILUT']
+libs = ['GL', 'GLU', 'boost_system', 'boost_filesystem', 'boost_regex', 'IL', 'ILU', 'ILUT', 'SDL' ]
 
 debug_cc_flags = ['-g']
 release_cc_flags = ['-O2']

Apply the patch with:

$ git apply /path/to/patch/file

Build PCS2

$ scons

Copy pcs2 to somewhere in your path

$ sudo cp pcs2 /usr/local/bin 
$ sudo cp pcs2d /usr/local/bin