Building in Linux

kjoppy got a working build in Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) using the following dependencies

• boost 1.53
• wxWidgets 2.8.12
• Prepackaged hunspell libs (obtained via sudo apt-get install hunspell-dev)

This was with the source code taken from the MSE sourceforge site in June 2013

Notes

I have not extensively tested the built program. It does start up and allow me to access the main editing interface. Various push buttons do what they should.

Step by step instructions

Here are the exact steps taken to get a working build. Everything prefixed by $ is a shell command. Read the entire set of instructions before executing them. There is at least one important comment that pertains to an action specified before the comment. This is intentional so that you actually read the instructions.

1. Install Ubuntu 12.04. I did this within VMware player, a free virtual machine program. If you use VMware follow any instructions with which it prompts you.
2. Install updates if prompted to do so when you you boot Ubuntu.
3. $ sudo apt-get update
4. Install hunspell development package. This gets you pre-compiled libs for hunspell.
5. $ sudo apt-get install libhunspell-dev
6. $ sudo apt-get install subversion
7. $ sudo apt-get install build-essential
8. Install and build wxWidgets. I followed these instructions
9. $ sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
10. Download wxGTK-2.8.12.tar.gz from sourceforge
11. $ cd /home/Downloads
12. $ sudo mv wxGTK-2.8.12.tar.gz /usr/local/src
13. $ cd /usr/local/src
14. $ sudo tar zxf wxGTK-2.8.tar.gz
15. $ cd wxGTK-2.8
16. $ sudo mkdir gtk-build
17. $ cd gtk-build
18. $ sudo ../configure --enable-unicode --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-monolithic
19. $ sudo make
20. $ sudo make install
21. Download and build boost
22. Download boost 1_53_0 and put in usr/local/src
23. $ cd usr/local/src
24. $ sudo tar zxf boost 1_53_0.tar.gz
25. $ cd boost_1_53_0
26. $ sudo ./bootstrap.sh
27. $ sudo mkdir my-build
28. $ sudo ./b2 --build-dir=my-build --with-regex --with-system variant=release link=static runtime-link=shared stage
29. You now have boost libs in /usr/local/src/boost_1_53_0/stage/lib. You can leave them there and possibly get the MSE configure script to find them, but I moved them into /usr/local/lib. Same with the headers. You could achieve this also by just using "install" instead of "stage" as the target when you invoke b2. I didn't do that because I wasn't sure where b2 was going to put stuff.
30. $ cd stage/lib
31. $ sudo cp libboost_regex.a /usr/local/lib
32. $ sudo cp libboost_system.a /usr/local/lib
33. $ cd /usr/local/src/boost_1_53_0
34. $ sudo cp boost -a /usr/local/include
35. Download and build Magic Set Editor
36. $ cd /usr/local/src
37. $ svn co ...svn location... magicseteditor
38. $ cd magicseteditor
39. $ ./configure
40. Add -lboost_system in Makefile. This is a hack to get around the fact that I still haven't figured out how to use autotools properly.
41. $ sudo make
42. $ sudo cp -a data /home/yourUserName/.magicseteditor
43. $ sudo ./Resources.sh

Now it runs!