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General => General discussions => Topic started by: ravenheart on March 16, 2010, 02:23:49 pm

Title: Compiling and deleting
Post by: ravenheart on March 16, 2010, 02:23:49 pm

Hello, at the moment i use sfml 1.4, because it is standard in debian.

But now i want to try out the newer sfml-versions 1.5 and 2.0.
unfortunately i do not exactly know what will happen to my system if i compile sfml on myself.

If done so how could i remove it properly?

I´d like to have just one folder containing all used headers and .so files so that i easily could delete this folder to remove sfml again.

Is that tricky or hard to realize? And if not what can i do?

Title: Compiling and deleting
Post by: christoph on March 17, 2010, 11:37:44 am

If you just build sfml (e.g. make) you have all the needed stuff there. You can even reorganize that (as long as you keep the structure of include/ intact but will then need to tell your compiler/linker where to look for header files / libraries.

If there is broader need I could actually set up some debian packages of newer versions (though I didn't look at sfml1 yet) so it's just another apt-get install away. (I do that for Ubuntu already as it's easy and doesn't cose me any permanent resources using launchpad's PPAs)