This guide will demonstrate how to compile the Mercurial version of ECWolf on Linux.

Dependencies

The following programs/libraries are used by ECWolf. The versions listed below are known to work, however other versions may work.

• CMake 2.6
• GCC 4.4.1
• libsdl 1.2
• SDL_mixer 1.2.11

In addition to the above, the following are optional dependencies.

• zlib 1.2.3
• bzip2 1.0.5

Mercurial is also needed to checkout a copy of the latest source.

Retrieving the Source

Use Mercurial to retrieve the latest version of the source.

hg clone https://bitbucket.org/Blzut3/ecwolf

Compiling

It is recommended that you create a build directory in the newly created ecwolf directory.

cd ecwolf
mkdir build
cd build

Run CMake to generate a Makefile. Assuming there were no errors, you should be able to run make to compile.

cmake ..
make

An ecwolf binary should be produced.

./ecwolf

Debugging

In most cases it is good idea to generate a back trace when ECWolf crashes. To make a debug build of ecwolf simply replace the cmake command with the following.

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
make

You should now be able to use gdb to generate a back trace.

gdb ecwolf

GDB has it's own command prompt. Use "run" to start ecwolf and use "bt" to get the back trace after a crash.

(gdb) run
(gdb) bt