Compiling Teeworlds on Linux

IMPORTANT NOTE: SDL and Freetype libs are not shipped with Teeworlds 0.7.x. You must download them separately.

Q: What is bam?

Bam is the build system made by matricks used in Teeworlds.

Setup

Use your package manager (apt-get, emerge or whatever is used on your distribution) to install the following (you will need the header files):
- gcc
- g++
- python
- alsa (asound)
- gl
- glu
- x11
- libsdl2
- freetype
Download and unzip Teeworlds source or Teeworlds latest source
Download and unzip bam to teeworlds-version/bam
Compiling bam
- $ cd bam
- $ ./make_unix.sh
- $ cd ..

Compiling Teeworlds v0.7.x

cd teeworlds-version
- Changes to the teeworlds source directory
./bam/bam config
- Runs bam configuration
./bam/bam conf=release
- Compiles teeworlds (Client and Server)
- conf=debug will build the debug version
- Available targets for release and debug:
  - game(default)
  - server
  - client
  - content
  - masterserver
  - tools
- To build the tools and master server in release mode use the following arguments:
  - conf=release tools masterserver
- Flag -f will force a recompile
- You may specify the architecture using arch, e.g. arch=x86 or arch=x86_64.
The compiled game is located at teeworlds-version/build/<arch>

Compiling Teeworlds v0.6.x and earlier

cd teeworlds-version
- Changes to the teeworlds source directory
./bam/bam release
- Compiles teeworlds (Client and Server)
- Available targets for release and debug:
  - release (for all in release mode)
  - debug (for all in debug mode)
  - server_release
  - server_debug
  - client_release
  - client_debug
The compiled game is located in teeworlds-version

Note: Teeworlds 0.5.2 and earlier requires python 2.x to compile. Python 3.x will not work. Python 3.x support is introduced with Teeworlds 0.6.0.

Note: If you are using bam 0.2.0 (needed for Teeworlds 0.5.2 and earlier) the bam binary will not be in the bam directory, but in bam/src. You will need to change the paths accordingly to that or copy/move the bam executable to the bam directory.