Hey guys, recently I have installed linux mint 9 and I could not get sfml to compile and work on it. I searched the forums, and asked a few questions and eventually figured it out. I have decided to write this simple tutorial to save you the massive headache that me and others like me have had trying to do this task. Lets get started
First thing is first, make sure you have all of these packages installed
build-essential
mesa-common-dev
libx11-dev
libxrandr-dev
libgl1-mesa-dev
libglu1-mesa-dev
libfreetype6-dev
libopenal-dev
libsndfile1-dev
If your linux distribution has a package manager for them, I would look there. Otherwise just google them and manually install them.
Now download sfml version that you would like to use, for this example I will be using sfml2.
http://sfml.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/sfml/branches/sfml2.tar.gz?view=tar, but you can use any version you want
http://www.sfml-dev.org/download.phpNow open up your terminal and navigate to your sfml-x.y directory, and type these following commands
If this works and you receive no errors then just type: sudo make install
However if you are like me, then you will receive tons of errors when trying to "make" the directory. To fix these errors you will need to install the libraries that the errors are asking for. For example I was getting errors about png and jpg images, so I went to my package manager and installed the png/jpg libraries. I kept on doing this until all of the packages I was missing were installed. Finally when I typed: make clean -> make it compiled! Then I wrote sudo make install and everything installed.
Next I was starting to get errors that the system.so.2.0,graphics.so.2.0,etc were not found. To solve this I had to log in as root, here are the steps
Open terminal
Type: sudo su
Type: passwd
Close terminal
Now log out of your session, and relog as root(the password is what you set up in the above steps)
Navigate to your usr/local/lib folder and copy all of the files(system.so.2.0,etc) to the directory usr/lib
Now open code::blocks and go to setting->Compiler Settings
Go to Search directories and under compiler and your sfml-x.y/include. Then in linker add your sfml-x.y/lib.
Finally in Linker Settings->Other linker options add these and whatever else you need: -lsfml-graphics, -lsfml-window, -lsfml-system, etc->Press OK
You should now be able to compile/run all sfml code.
To test if it works type this, and compile it
#include <SFML/Graphics.hpp>
using namespace sf;
int main()
{
// Create the main rendering window
sf::RenderWindow App(sf::VideoMode(800, 600, 32), "SFML Graphics");
// Start game loop
while (App.IsOpened())
{
// Process events
sf::Event Event;
while (App.GetEvent(Event))
{
// Close window : exit
if (Event.Type == sf::Event::Closed)
App.Close();
}
// Clear the screen (fill it with black color)
App.Clear();
// Display window contents on screen
App.Display();
}
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
Hopefully this helped :lol:. If you are still getting errors with "make" please post them as a comment and hopefully someone can help you.
