Spheretest

In order to compile spheretest for your platform, follow the minetest-specific instructions below. I also recommend you to get minetest_game and your favorite mods for the standard minetest experience. Then, create a file minetest.conf and add the following lines to it:

planet_enable = true planet_radius = 2 planet_keep_scale = true planet_centrifugal_enable = true planet_realistic_gravity = true movement_gravity = 10 enable_clouds = 0 active_block_range = 4 active_object_send_range_blocks = 4 viewing_range = 400

You can tweak these settings and see how they affect the planet's appearance and behaviour. In the game, create a new world with Mapgen "flat". The planet edges are very glitchy, so anything other than "flat" won't look good. Keep in mind that this is only a technical demo and not intended to be a full-featured game. A demo map and the satellite mod are available in the releases section of this GitHub page.

Minetest

An InfiniMiner/Minecraft inspired game.

In case you downloaded the source code:

If you downloaded the Minetest Engine source code in which this file is contained, you probably want to download the minetest_game project too: https://github.com/minetest/minetest_game/ See the README.txt in it.

Further documentation

Website: http://minetest.net/
Wiki: http://wiki.minetest.net/
Developer wiki: http://dev.minetest.net/
Forum: http://forum.minetest.net/
Github: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/
doc/ directory of source distribution

This game is not finished

Don't expect it to work as well as a finished game will.
Please report any bugs. When doing that, debug.txt is useful.

Default controls

Move mouse: Look around
W, A, S, D: Move
Space: Jump/move up
Shift: Sneak/move down
Q: Drop itemstack
Shift + Q: Drop single item
Left mouse button: Dig/punch/take item
Right mouse button: Place/use
Shift + right mouse button: Build (without using)
I: Inventory menu
Mouse wheel: Select item
0-9: Select item
Z: Zoom (needs zoom privilege)
T: Chat
/: Commad
Esc: Pause menu/abort/exit (pauses only singleplayer game)
R: Enable/disable full range view
+: Increase view range
-: Decrease view range
K: Enable/disable fly mode (needs fly privilege)
J: Enable/disable fast mode (needs fast privilege)
H: Enable/disable noclip mode (needs noclip privilege)
F1: Hide/show HUD
F2: Hide/show chat
F3: Disable/enable fog
F4: Disable/enable camera update (Mapblocks are not updated anymore when disabled, disabled in release builds)
F5: Cycle through debug info screens
F6: Cycle through profiler info screens
F7: Cycle through camera modes
F8: Toggle cinematic mode
F9: Cycle through minimap modes
Shift + F9: Change minimap orientation
F10: Show/hide console
F12: Take screenshot
P: Write stack traces into debug.txt

Most controls are settable in the configuration file, see the section below.

Paths

$bin - Compiled binaries $share - Distributed read-only data $user - User-created modifiable data

Windows .zip / RUN_IN_PLACE source: $bin = bin $share = . $user = .

Linux installed: $bin = /usr/bin $share = /usr/share/minetest $user = ~/.minetest

OS X: $bin = Contents/MacOS $share = Contents/Resources $user = Contents/User OR ~/Library/Application Support/minetest

World directory

Worlds can be found as separate folders in: $user/worlds/

Configuration file:

Default location: $user/minetest.conf
It is created by Minetest when it is ran the first time.
A specific file can be specified on the command line: --config

Command-line options:

Use --help

Compiling on GNU/Linux:

Install dependencies. Here's an example for Debian/Ubuntu: $ sudo apt-get install build-essential libirrlicht-dev cmake libbz2-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libxxf86vm-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libsqlite3-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libopenal-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libfreetype6-dev zlib1g-dev libgmp-dev libjsoncpp-dev

For Fedora users: $ sudo dnf install make automake gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel cmake libcurl openal libvorbis* libXxf86vm-devel libogg-devel freetype-devel mesa-libGL-devel zlib-devel jsoncpp-devel irrlicht-devel bzip2-libs gmp-devel sqlite-devel luajit-devel leveldb-devel ncurses-devel doxygen spatialindex-devel bzip2-devel

You can install git for easily keeping your copy up to date. If you dont want git, read below on how to get the source without git. This is an example for installing git on Debian/Ubuntu: $ sudo apt-get install git

For Fedora users: $ sudo dnf install git

Download source (this is the URL to the latest of source repository, which might not work at all times) using git: $ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/minetest/minetest.git $ cd minetest

Download minetest_game (otherwise only the "Minimal development test" game is available) using git: $ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/minetest/minetest_game.git games/minetest_game

Download source, without using git: $ wget https://github.com/minetest/minetest/archive/master.tar.gz $ tar xf master.tar.gz $ cd minetest-master

Download minetest_game, without using git: $ cd games/ $ wget https://github.com/minetest/minetest_game/archive/master.tar.gz $ tar xf master.tar.gz $ mv minetest_game-master minetest_game $ cd ..

Build a version that runs directly from the source directory: $ cmake . -DRUN_IN_PLACE=TRUE $ make -j

Run it: $ ./bin/minetest

Use cmake . -LH to see all CMake options and their current state
If you want to install it system-wide (or are making a distribution package), you will want to use -DRUN_IN_PLACE=FALSE
You can build a bare server by specifying -DBUILD_SERVER=TRUE
You can disable the client build by specifying -DBUILD_CLIENT=FALSE
You can select between Release and Debug build by -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=
- Debug build is slower, but gives much more useful output in a debugger
If you build a bare server, you don't need to have Irrlicht installed. In that case use -DIRRLICHT_SOURCE_DIR=/the/irrlicht/source

CMake options

General options:

BUILD_CLIENT - Build Minetest client BUILD_SERVER - Build Minetest server CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE - Type of build (Release vs. Debug) Release - Release build Debug - Debug build SemiDebug - Partially optimized debug build RelWithDebInfo - Release build with Debug information MinSizeRel - Release build with -Os passed to compiler to make executable as small as possible ENABLE_CURL - Build with cURL; Enables use of online mod repo, public serverlist and remote media fetching via http ENABLE_CURSES - Build with (n)curses; Enables a server side terminal (command line option: --terminal) ENABLE_FREETYPE - Build with FreeType2; Allows using TTF fonts ENABLE_GETTEXT - Build with Gettext; Allows using translations ENABLE_GLES - Search for Open GLES headers & libraries and use them ENABLE_LEVELDB - Build with LevelDB; Enables use of LevelDB map backend ENABLE_POSTGRESQL - Build with libpq; Enables use of PostgreSQL map backend (PostgreSQL 9.5 or greater required) ENABLE_REDIS - Build with libhiredis; Enables use of Redis map backend ENABLE_SPATIAL - Build with LibSpatial; Speeds up AreaStores ENABLE_SOUND - Build with OpenAL, libogg & libvorbis; in-game Sounds ENABLE_LUAJIT - Build with LuaJIT (much faster than non-JIT Lua) ENABLE_SYSTEM_GMP - Use GMP from system (much faster than bundled mini-gmp) RUN_IN_PLACE - Create a portable install (worlds, settings etc. in current directory) USE_GPROF - Enable profiling using GProf VERSION_EXTRA - Text to append to version (e.g. VERSION_EXTRA=foobar -> Minetest 0.4.9-foobar)

Library specific options:

BZIP2_INCLUDE_DIR - Linux only; directory where bzlib.h is located BZIP2_LIBRARY - Linux only; path to libbz2.a/libbz2.so CURL_DLL - Only if building with cURL on Windows; path to libcurl.dll CURL_INCLUDE_DIR - Only if building with cURL; directory where curl.h is located CURL_LIBRARY - Only if building with cURL; path to libcurl.a/libcurl.so/libcurl.lib EGL_INCLUDE_DIR - Only if building with GLES; directory that contains egl.h EGL_LIBRARY - Only if building with GLES; path to libEGL.a/libEGL.so FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_freetype2 - Only if building with Freetype2; directory that contains an freetype directory with files such as ftimage.h in it FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_ft2build - Only if building with Freetype2; directory that contains ft2build.h FREETYPE_LIBRARY - Only if building with Freetype2; path to libfreetype.a/libfreetype.so/freetype.lib FREETYPE_DLL - Only if building with Freetype2 on Windows; path to libfreetype.dll GETTEXT_DLL - Only when building with Gettext on Windows; path to libintl3.dll GETTEXT_ICONV_DLL - Only when building with Gettext on Windows; path to libiconv2.dll GETTEXT_INCLUDE_DIR - Only when building with Gettext; directory that contains iconv.h GETTEXT_LIBRARY - Only when building with Gettext on Windows; path to libintl.dll.a GETTEXT_MSGFMT - Only when building with Gettext; path to msgfmt/msgfmt.exe IRRLICHT_DLL - Only on Windows; path to Irrlicht.dll IRRLICHT_INCLUDE_DIR - Directory that contains IrrCompileConfig.h IRRLICHT_LIBRARY - Path to libIrrlicht.a/libIrrlicht.so/libIrrlicht.dll.a/Irrlicht.lib LEVELDB_INCLUDE_DIR - Only when building with LevelDB; directory that contains db.h LEVELDB_LIBRARY - Only when building with LevelDB; path to libleveldb.a/libleveldb.so/libleveldb.dll.a LEVELDB_DLL - Only when building with LevelDB on Windows; path to libleveldb.dll POSTGRESQL_INCLUDE_DIR - Only when building with PostgreSQL; directory that contains libpq-fe.h POSTGRESQL_LIBRARY - Only when building with PostgreSQL; path to libpq.a/libpq.so REDIS_INCLUDE_DIR - Only when building with Redis; directory that contains hiredis.h REDIS_LIBRARY - Only when building with Redis; path to libhiredis.a/libhiredis.so SPATIAL_INCLUDE_DIR - Only when building with LibSpatial; directory that contains spatialindex/SpatialIndex.h SPATIAL_LIBRARY - Only when building with LibSpatial; path to libspatialindex_c.so/spatialindex-32.lib LUA_INCLUDE_DIR - Only if you want to use LuaJIT; directory where luajit.h is located LUA_LIBRARY - Only if you want to use LuaJIT; path to libluajit.a/libluajit.so MINGWM10_DLL - Only if compiling with MinGW; path to mingwm10.dll OGG_DLL - Only if building with sound on Windows; path to libogg.dll OGG_INCLUDE_DIR - Only if building with sound; directory that contains an ogg directory which contains ogg.h OGG_LIBRARY - Only if building with sound; path to libogg.a/libogg.so/libogg.dll.a OPENAL_DLL - Only if building with sound on Windows; path to OpenAL32.dll OPENAL_INCLUDE_DIR - Only if building with sound; directory where al.h is located OPENAL_LIBRARY - Only if building with sound; path to libopenal.a/libopenal.so/OpenAL32.lib OPENGLES2_INCLUDE_DIR - Only if building with GLES; directory that contains gl2.h OPENGLES2_LIBRARY - Only if building with GLES; path to libGLESv2.a/libGLESv2.so SQLITE3_INCLUDE_DIR - Directory that contains sqlite3.h SQLITE3_LIBRARY - Path to libsqlite3.a/libsqlite3.so/sqlite3.lib VORBISFILE_DLL - Only if building with sound on Windows; path to libvorbisfile-3.dll VORBISFILE_LIBRARY - Only if building with sound; path to libvorbisfile.a/libvorbisfile.so/libvorbisfile.dll.a VORBIS_DLL - Only if building with sound on Windows; path to libvorbis-0.dll VORBIS_INCLUDE_DIR - Only if building with sound; directory that contains a directory vorbis with vorbisenc.h inside VORBIS_LIBRARY - Only if building with sound; path to libvorbis.a/libvorbis.so/libvorbis.dll.a XXF86VM_LIBRARY - Only on Linux; path to libXXf86vm.a/libXXf86vm.so ZLIB_DLL - Only on Windows; path to zlib1.dll ZLIBWAPI_DLL - Only on Windows; path to zlibwapi.dll ZLIB_INCLUDE_DIR - Directory that contains zlib.h ZLIB_LIBRARY - Path to libz.a/libz.so/zlibwapi.lib

Compiling on Windows:

This section is outdated. In addition to what is described here:
- In addition to minetest, you need to download minetest_game.
- If you wish to have sound support, you need libogg, libvorbis and libopenal
You need:
- CMake: http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html
- MinGW or Visual Studio http://www.mingw.org/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default
- Irrlicht SDK 1.7: http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/downloads.html
- Zlib headers (zlib125.zip) http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/index.html
- Zlib library (zlibwapi.lib and zlibwapi.dll from zlib125dll.zip): http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/index.html
- SQLite3 headers and library https://www.sqlite.org/download.html
- Optional: gettext library and tools: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/downlinks/gettext.php
  - This is used for other UI languages. Feel free to leave it out.
- And, of course, Minetest: http://minetest.net/download
Steps:
- Select a directory called DIR hereafter in which you will operate.
- Make sure you have CMake and a compiler installed.
- Download all the other stuff to DIR and extract them into there. ("extract here", not "extract to packagename/") NOTE: zlib125dll.zip needs to be extracted into zlib125dll NOTE: You need to extract sqlite3.h & sqlite3ext.h from sqlite3 source and sqlite3.dll & sqlite3.def from sqlite3 precompiled binaries into "sqlite3" directory, and generate sqlite3.lib using command "LIB /DEF:sqlite3.def /OUT:sqlite3.lib"
- All those packages contain a nice base directory in them, which should end up being the direct subdirectories of DIR.
- You will end up with a directory structure like this (+=dir, -=file):
- DIR
  - zlib-1.2.5.tar.gz
  - zlib125dll.zip
  - irrlicht-1.8.3.zip
  - sqlite-amalgamation-3130000.zip (SQLite3 headers)
  - sqlite-dll-win32-x86-3130000.zip (SQLite3 library for 32bit system)
  - 110214175330.zip (or whatever, this is the minetest source)
  - zlib-1.2.5
    - zlib.h
    - win32 ...
  - zlib125dll
    - readme.txt
    - dll32 ...
  - irrlicht-1.8.3
    - lib
    - include ...
  - sqlite3 sqlite3.h sqlite3ext.h sqlite3.lib sqlite3.dll
  - gettext (optional) +bin +include +lib
  - minetest
    - src
    - doc
    - CMakeLists.txt ...
- Start up the CMake GUI
- Select "Browse Source..." and select DIR/minetest
- Now, if using MSVC:
  - Select "Browse Build..." and select DIR/minetest-build
- Else if using MinGW:
  - Select "Browse Build..." and select DIR/minetest
- Select "Configure"
- Select your compiler
- It will warn about missing stuff, ignore that at this point. (later don't)
- Make sure the configuration is as follows (note that the versions may differ for you):
  
  BUILD_CLIENT [X] BUILD_SERVER [ ] CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE Release CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX DIR/minetest-install IRRLICHT_SOURCE_DIR DIR/irrlicht-1.8.3 RUN_IN_PLACE [X] WARN_ALL [ ] ZLIB_DLL DIR/zlib125dll/dll32/zlibwapi.dll ZLIB_INCLUDE_DIR DIR/zlib-1.2.5 ZLIB_LIBRARIES DIR/zlib125dll/dll32/zlibwapi.lib GETTEXT_BIN_DIR DIR/gettext/bin GETTEXT_INCLUDE_DIR DIR/gettext/include GETTEXT_LIBRARIES DIR/gettext/lib/intl.lib GETTEXT_MSGFMT DIR/gettext/bin/msgfmt
- If CMake complains it couldn't find SQLITE3, choose "Advanced" box on the right top corner, then specify the location of SQLITE3_INCLUDE_DIR and SQLITE3_LIBRARY manually.
- If you want to build 64-bit minetest, you will need to build 64-bit version of irrlicht engine manually, as only 32-bit pre-built library is provided.
- Hit "Configure"
- Hit "Configure" once again 8)
- If something is still coloured red, you have a problem.
- Hit "Generate" If using MSVC:
  - Open the generated minetest.sln
  - The project defaults to the "Debug" configuration. Make very sure to select "Release", unless you want to debug some stuff (it's slower and might not even work at all)
  - Build the ALL_BUILD project
  - Build the INSTALL project
  - You should now have a working game with the executable in DIR/minetest-install/bin/minetest.exe
  - Additionally you may create a zip package by building the PACKAGE project. If using MinGW:
  - Using the command line, browse to the build directory and run 'make' (or mingw32-make or whatever it happens to be)
  - You may need to copy some of the downloaded DLLs into bin/, see what running the produced executable tells you it doesn't have.
  - You should now have a working game with the executable in DIR/minetest/bin/minetest.exe

Windows releases of minetest are built using a bat script like this:

set sourcedir=%CD% set installpath="C:\tmp\minetest_install" set irrlichtpath="C:\tmp\irrlicht-1.7.2"

set builddir=%sourcedir%\bvc10 mkdir %builddir% pushd %builddir% cmake %sourcedir% -G "Visual Studio 10" -DIRRLICHT_SOURCE_DIR=%irrlichtpath% -DRUN_IN_PLACE=TRUE -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=%installpath% if %errorlevel% neq 0 goto fail "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe" ALL_BUILD.vcxproj /p:Configuration=Release if %errorlevel% neq 0 goto fail "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe" INSTALL.vcxproj /p:Configuration=Release if %errorlevel% neq 0 goto fail "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe" PACKAGE.vcxproj /p:Configuration=Release if %errorlevel% neq 0 goto fail popd echo Finished. exit /b 0

:fail popd echo Failed. exit /b 1

License of Minetest textures and sounds

This applies to textures and sounds contained in the main Minetest distribution.

Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Authors of media files

ShadowNinja: textures/base/pack/smoke_puff.png

Paramat: textures/base/pack/menu_header.png

erlehmann: misc/minetest-icon-24x24.png misc/minetest-icon.ico misc/minetest.svg textures/base/pack/logo.png

License of Minetest source code

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

Irrlicht

This program uses the Irrlicht Engine. http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/

The Irrlicht Engine License

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.

Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions:

The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required.
Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software.
This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.

JThread

This program uses the JThread library. License for JThread follows:

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Lua

Lua is licensed under the terms of the MIT license reproduced below. This means that Lua is free software and can be used for both academic and commercial purposes at absolutely no cost.

For details and rationale, see http://www.lua.org/license.html .

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

Fonts

DejaVu Sans Mono:

Fonts are (c) Bitstream (see below). DejaVu changes are in public domain. Glyphs imported from Arev fonts are (c) Tavmjong Bah (see below)

Bitstream Vera Fonts Copyright:

Arev Fonts Copyright:

Liberation Fonts Copyright:

DroidSansFallback:

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

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