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Some prerequisites to building from source:

  • CMake (2.24 or later)
  • Install flexbison (Windows, use https://chocolatey.org/: choco install winflexbison3)
  • For Windows: Visual Studio 2019 (but later is better)

Configuring the build

Advanced CMake users can likely skip this section.

You can either use the CMake GUI, or the following command to initialize the build system:

cmake -S . -B build

On Windows, this defaults to creating a Visual Studio solution file. You can open that to actually build.

You can also build from the terminal:

cmake --build build

Tip: use -t to build a single target (instead of everything), and use --config Release (or --config Debug) to specify the optimization level.

OSX/Linux developers will benefit from using Ninja (this is faster than the default Makefile generator). For a multi-configuration Ninja build, use: cmake -G 'Ninja Multi-Config' -S . -B build.

After building, you'll find the executables in build/{Release|Debug}.

Quick-start: Windows with MSVC and CMake GUI

Download CMake and run the CMake GUI. It will prompt your for the location of the source code, and the location in which to build the binaries. Specify the root (the folder containing this file) for the former and the build folder for the latter.

Click "Generate." This will create a Visual Studio project file for you in the build directory. You can then open up the project file in MSVC and do editing/compilation/debugging in MSVC. You do not need to touch CMake again unless you want to change project configuration options or add/remove source files.

Building on Linux

These instructions are specific to Ubuntu.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential gcc-multilib g++-multilib libx11-dev libglu1-mesa-dev freeglut3-dev mesa-common-dev libxcursor1 libasound2-dev libgtk-3-dev flex bison

# Note: We do not build or test with gcc, so gcc is not guarenteed to work. clang 14+ is advised.
CC=clang CXX=clang++ cmake -B build -S .

# Build!
cmake --build build

Then before running, you need some additional packages installed:

sudo apt install libopengl0 libglu1

Building w/ OGG support on Windows

You'll need to install libogg and libvorbis. This is typically already present on Unix systems, but for Windows you can use vcpkg:

cd ~/tools
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg
cd vcpkg
./bootstrap-vcpkg.bat
./vcpkg.exe install --triplet x64-windows libogg libvorbis

You then need to configure your CMake build with the vcpkg toolchain:

cmake -B build -S . -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=/c/Users/cjamc/tools/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake

Note: this needs to be a fresh build folder, otherwise the toolchain won't be updated.

If these libraries are not present, you can still build but won't be able to play OGG music.

Building w/ CURL for updater on Windows

./vcpkg.exe install --triplet x64-windows curl

Building with Ninja and MSVC

Typically, on Windows you want to use Visual Studio as the cmake generator, but if you want to use Ninja here's how:

  1. Ensure you have installed the C++/CLI tools for C++ desktop development in the Visual Studio Installer (reference)

  2. Launch cmd.exe and configure the environment to use the Microsoft toolchain: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64.bat" Change 64 to 32 if you want to build 32bit.

  3. Configure: cmake -S . -B build -G "Ninja Multi-Config" -DCMAKE_WIN32_EXECUTABLE=1

  4. Build: cmake --build build --config Debug -t zplayer

One reason to use Ninja is to use clang instead of MSVC (just skip the environment configuration above); or to use ccache for faster builds.

ccache

ccache can be used to cache build results, making switching between branches and re-building much faster.

OSX: brew install ccache

Windows: choco install ccache

When configuring cmake, use these flags:

-DCMAKE_C_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache

Note: you'll need to set the env variable CCACHE_SLOPPINESS=time_macros.

Note: on Windows, Debug can't be cached yet. ccache/ccache#1040

Some care is needed to ensure build outputs are determinstic. If you do a clean build (cmake --build build --clean-first), and then run ccache -z and do another clean build, then ccache -s will give a report of cache misses/hits. The cache should be full and there should be 0 misses. If there are misses, something in the build output is non deterministic. Read this article for how to debug.

Other useful links: