Building and running the engine for Arch Linux

Install the needed packages:

• glfw-x11 - X11 version of GLFW. For graphics, input, and windo handling.
• binutils - Collection of tools (like GCC) needed for building
• chicken - For lisp scheme scripting

# pacman -S glfw-x11 binutils assimp chicken

Install the needed dependencies for scripting:

# chicken-install -v bind srfi-1 foreigners

Clone the repository and enter the directory:

$ git clone [email protected]:accidentalrebel/rebel-game-engine.git 
$ cd rebel-game-engine/

Also make sure that the following directories are present (output, tmp, libs). If not, create them.

Build the engine as a library:

$ make build PLATFORM=linux

Run the engine (Runs whatever code is in scripts/game.scm):

$ make PLATFORM=linux

Congratulations, you are now ready to start working!

Note: To avoid having to specify PLATFORM every time you make a build, you can change the variable PLATFORM= inside the Makefile.

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Above code not working?

Because of package naming conflicts, the chicken package may be invoked with csc or chicken-csc. To test, try the command below:

$ csc -version

If the above command outputs the following:

Microsoft (R) Visual C# Compiler version 3.3.1-beta4-19462-11 (66a912c9)

Then it means that it's picking up the wrong binary.

To fix this, open the Makefile and change the value of CSC = csc to CSC = chicken-csc. Then run make again.

make PLATFORM=linux