I am trying to install Vegastrike via CVS but unfortunately, the compiling stops when it stumbles on an error. The error message is that it can't find the GTK header (gtk/gtk.h). The thing is, I have all the GTK libraries already installed and present in /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtk.h.
So, what do I have to do to be able to compile? Is there some environment variable that I need to set?
Thanks in advance
GTK compilation issue: what to do?
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You need gtk-1.2 and gtk-1.2-devel, not gtk-2.0
But you can safely ignore those errors, since it gets there after it finishes compiling vegastrike and soundserver.
Now, all you have to do is run vegastrike from the vegastrike/src directory.
If you want music and stuff, I find it easiest to symlink into your data dir
ln -s /path/to/vegastrike/src/vegastrike vegastrike
ln -s /path/to/vegastrike/src/networking/soundserver soundserver
If you want to continue, you might also try "make -k" instead of "make"
The "-k" lets it continue if there's an error.
I'm not sure why the configure script doesn't find that, but perhaps it doesn't tell the difference between gtk1.2 and gtk2.x
But you can safely ignore those errors, since it gets there after it finishes compiling vegastrike and soundserver.
Now, all you have to do is run vegastrike from the vegastrike/src directory.
If you want music and stuff, I find it easiest to symlink into your data dir
ln -s /path/to/vegastrike/src/vegastrike vegastrike
ln -s /path/to/vegastrike/src/networking/soundserver soundserver
If you want to continue, you might also try "make -k" instead of "make"
The "-k" lets it continue if there's an error.
I'm not sure why the configure script doesn't find that, but perhaps it doesn't tell the difference between gtk1.2 and gtk2.x
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Configure broken
Actually, configure didn't do any checks for GTK at all. I have a fix for this, which will stop the compile failures. However, it will require GTK 1.2 to be installed. I am reworking the configure script so that it is more modular, so we can make dependency changes easier (such as adding OGRE for rendering), but the current system is a mess. No wonder no one wanted to tackle fixing it up...
Right now everything gets lumped together, so it is hard to tell what needs each part, and what is no longer used at all. This is also fun in that it is very easy to break alternate configurations, and people just don't like it when you do that.
I always did like headaches.
EDIT: I ran into the same problem as the poster, and I decided to fix configure instead of just getting the GTK 1.2 library.
Right now everything gets lumped together, so it is hard to tell what needs each part, and what is no longer used at all. This is also fun in that it is very easy to break alternate configurations, and people just don't like it when you do that.
I always did like headaches.
EDIT: I ran into the same problem as the poster, and I decided to fix configure instead of just getting the GTK 1.2 library.