Build the Viewer on Linux

Installing the required dependancies

Paths and package names given here are based on Ubuntu 6.06 and may vary according to your Linux distribution.

Packages to install before you begin

• install scons [scons]
• install boost [libboost-dev]
• install boost-regex [libboost-regex-dev]
• install apr-1 [libapr1.0-dev]
• install aprutil-1 [libaprutil1.0-dev]
• install xmlrpc-epi 0.51 <http://xmlrpc-epi.sourceforge.net/>
  • note: not xmlrpc-c (xmlrpc-c has a library and headers with the same name but is not compatible)
• install jpeglib [libjpeg62-dev]
• install SDL [libsdl1.2-dev]
• install Vorbis [libvorbis-dev]
• install libgtk2 [libgtk2.0-dev]
• unpack FMOD 3 <http://www.fmod.org/>
• build ELFIO <http://sourceforge.net/projects/elfio/>
• build OpenJPEG <http://www.openjpeg.org/>

Copy headers and libraries into the source tree

• ${SLSRC} refers to the top-level directory of the Second Life Viewer source tree.
• ${OPENJPEG} refers to the top-level directory of your completed OpenJPEG build.
• ${FMOD} refers to the top-level directory into which you unpacked FMOD 3.
• ${ELFIO} refers to the top-level directory of your completed ELFIO build.

$ cp -a /usr/include/apr-1.0/ ${SLSRC}/libraries/i686-linux/include/apr-1

$ mkdir ${SLSRC}/libraries/i686-linux/include/expat
$ cp -a /usr/include/expat*.h ${SLSRC}/libraries/i686-linux/include/expat

$ mkdir ${SLSRC}/libraries/i686-linux/include/zlib
$ cp -a /usr/include/zlib*.h ${SLSRC}/libraries/i686-linux/include/zlib/

$ mkdir ${SLSRC}/libraries/i686-linux/include/openjpeg
$ cp ${OPENJPEG}/libopenjpeg/openjpeg.h ${SLSRC}/libraries/i686-linux/include/openjpeg/
$ cp ${OPENJPEG}/libopenjpeg.a ${SLSRC}/libraries/i686-linux/lib_release_client/

$ cp ${FMOD}/api/inc/* ${SLSRC}/libraries/i686-linux/include/
$ cp ${FMOD}/api/libfmod-3.75.so ${SLSRC}/libraries/i686-linux/lib_release_client/

$ mkdir ${SLSRC}/libraries/i686-linux/include/ELFIO
$ cp ${ELFIO}/ELFIO/*.h ${SLSRC}/libraries/i686-linux/include/ELFIO/
$ cp ${ELFIO}/ELFIO/libelfio.so ${SLSRC}/libraries/i686-linux/lib_release_client/

$ mkdir ${SLSRC}/libraries/i686-linux/include/jpeglib
$ cp -a /usr/include/j*.h ${SLSRC}/libraries/i686-linux/include/jpeglib/
$ touch ${SLSRC}/libraries/i686-linux/include/jpeglib/jinclude.h

$ mkdir ${SLSRC}/libraries/i686-linux/include/llfreetype2
$ cp -a /usr/include/freetype2/freetype/ ${SLSRC}/libraries/i686-linux/include/llfreetype2/
$ cp -a /usr/include/ft2build.h ${SLSRC}/libraries/i686-linux/include/llfreetype2/freetype/

$ cp -a /usr/include/atk-1.0 ${SLSRC}/libraries/i686-linux/include/
$ cp -a /usr/include/gtk-2.0 ${SLSRC}/libraries/i686-linux/include/
$ cp -a /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include/* ${SLSRC}/libraries/i686-linux/include/gtk-2.0/
$ cp -a /usr/include/glib-2.0 ${SLSRC}/libraries/i686-linux/include/
$ cp -a /usr/lib/glib-2.0/include/* ${SLSRC}/libraries/i686-linux/include/glib-2.0/
$ cp -a /usr/include/pango-1.0 ${SLSRC}/libraries/i686-linux/include/

if your GTK is fairly recent and thus needs Cairo:

$ cp -a /usr/include/cairo/* ${SLSRC}/libraries/i686-linux/include/

Compiling

$ cd indra
$ scons DISTCC=no BTARGET=client BUILD=release

• resulting unstripped binary is then newview/secondlife-i686-bin

Running from inside the tree

• preparing to run 'in-tree'
  • ensure you have indra/newview/app_settings/static_*.db2 - if not, you'll find it in the 'binary-common' package.

$ cp ../../scripts/messages/message_template.msg app_settings/

• running it!

$ ( cd newview && LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../../libraries/i686-linux/lib_release_client:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/usr/local/lib  ./secondlife-i686-bin )

Packaging the client

This doesn't work 'out of the box' as an automated process right now.