Update

Desurium had been forked and relicensed under LGPL v2.1 and thus the Desirum repository was currently not being actively developed by Desura or Lindenlab.

This repository has been left under the GPL v3 license and is still free to be used by all under the terms of the license.

On November 1, 2014, Bad Juju Games acquired Desura from LindenLab, and is investigating options for the client, including (but not limited to) returning to a full GPL v3 license.

If you would like the most up-to-date LGPL codebase, please visit https://github.com/desura/desura-app

We hope to update the community on the officially supported client in the near future.

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Desura
Build Desura on Linux
Build Desura on Windows
Special notes for advanced users
Closing Remarks

Desura

Desura is a gaming client that allows users to one click download and install games and game modification. For more information, visit http://www.moddb.com/groups/desura/forum/thread/open-sourcing-desura

Build Desura on Linux

Dependencies

You can install dependencies by package manager or install_deps.sh

Required dependencies:

GCC (4.6 or later, multilib support for 32 bit compatibility on 64 bit systems)
cmake (2.8.5 or later)
PkgConfig (for building DEB and RPM packages)
Boost (date_time, filesystem, thread system, test_exec_monitor, unit_test_framework)
Freetype
GTK2
libX11 (with libXt)
libEvent
libNotify (0.7 or later)
GLib2
OpenSSL (only for building Curl)
BZip2
Sqlite3
tinyxml2
V8
Python
C-ares

Optional dependencies (will be built by cmake if not existing):

Curl (if there is no ares support)
wxWidgets (2.9.3 or later)
Breakpad
CEF (Chromium Embedded)

Installation

Open Terminal in Desurium source directory and run:

./build_desura.sh

or you can speed up things by running:

./build_desura.sh rebuild_all -j `getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN`

or you can build DEB package:

./build_desura.sh pack_deb

or you can build RPM package:

./build_desura.sh pack_rpm

Finally run Desurium using:

./install/desura

or install created DEB or RPM package

For informations on advanced arguments of the build script, run:

./build_desura.sh help

Build Desura on Windows

Download and install:

Svn http://www.sliksvn.com/en/download or http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads.html
Msvc 2013 or higher (as C++11 features are in use)
Python 2.7 x86 http://www.python.org/getit/
CMake 2.8 http://www.cmake.org/
Patch either from msysGit or git bash
(Optional) Windows DirectX 9 SDK for the CEF build https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=6812

Note: Make sure you add svn and python to your environment PATH

Command line build:

Open a 32bit cmd.exe with env vars set up by vc or other scripts (so we have a full build environment) and run:

./build_desura.bat

wait

Visual studio build:

Open a 32bit cmd.exe with env vars set up by vc or other scripts (so we have a full build environment) and run:

./build_desura_vis.bat

Set BUILD_ALL as startup project
In properties for BUILD_ALL set debugging options:
Command to source code dir + "\build_vis\Debug_Out\desura.exe"
Working Directory to source code dir + "\build_vis\Debug_Out"
Build ThirdParty folder first (race condition some times if you dont)
Build BUILD_ALL

Should be able to run and debug Desura now.

Special notes for advanced users

Desura is using the cmake build system for configuration on prject files for several build systems (make, VS, nmake, ...). At the top of CMakeFile.txt is a documented list of options

a "normal" way to configure cmake would be something like this:

UNIX-based systems:
1. mkdir build
2. cd build
3. cmake ..
4. make
5. sudo make install (optionally)
win32 based systems:
1. md build
2. cd build
3. cmake ..
4. open project files and compile them

Closing Remarks

If you need help, want to give some suggestions or just want to talk, feel free to join our IRC channel #desura on irc.freenode.net.

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