Getting started on Linux

You need do download gcc, subversion and lua.

sudo apt-get install gcc
sudo apt-get install subversion
sudo apt-get install lua5.2
sudo apt-get install lua5.2-dev

We also need graphical library glm

sudo apt-get install libglm-dev

And you'll also need premake4, which can be downloaded from here: ​http://industriousone.com/premake/download

Did I mention that we need SDL? Download the proper rpm from here:

http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php

To install that rpm, followe the instructions here:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/install-an-rpm-package-on-ubuntu-linux/

The repo for nv project can be found here: (should this information be visible here?) which you should clone to a directory of your choice:

svn co (again, should this be visible here)

After you have checked-out the repo, go to the trunk dir and use premake4 to generate files (I was just lazy and copied the binary there).

./premake4 gmake

Which tells premake4 to generate Makefiles for Linux. After that, you can simply type:

make

to start the compilation.

Latest known revision known to be compilable under Linux is: 26

Building problems

Sometimes linker will scream that some libraries are missing. Either you are really missing the libraries or your libraries might have diffirent names. Check the following folders:

/usr/lib
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

for the missing libraries. When you find them, link them to /usr/lib

melon@melon:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6 libfreetype.so

In the above example I have made a link, because linker was shouting that libfreetype.so was missing. Now I have a symbolic link: /usr/lib/libfreetype.so pointing to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6 and compiler is satisfied.