[documentation improvement] Dependencies for Artix/Arch Linux

[stamasd]

I have worked out the list of minimal dependencies that need to be installed on Artix Linux (and Arch, which is closely related). They are as follows:

pacman -S git cmake base-devel boost-libs boost libpng libjpeg-turbo \ openal libogg libvorbis freeglut sdl12-compat gtk3

Note that the last one (gtk3) should be already installed if one uses a GTK-based DE, but will probably not be there for users of KDE etc. I have included it for completeness.

This was verified by me on a new install of Artix with nothing else installed except for Xorg and XFCE4.

Arch is very similar and the list of dependencies should be the same (the main difference between Arch vs Artix is the init system: systemd vs OpenRC/runit/s6/dinit - which is largely irrelevant as far as VegaStrike is concerned).

[FabioLolix]

Hello, I maintain several pkgbuilds for vegastrike on the AUR plus have a personal copy here on github for the ones I don't have on the AUR They can all be found here https://github.com/FabioLolix/PKGBUILD-AUR_fix/tree/master/v they are all tested to build in a clean chroot with Arch's devtools

nb sdl on Arch pull sdl12-compat using only Arch repo; the old one is on the AUR

[BenjamenMeyer]

@evertvorster may be able to give some insight on Arch.

[BenjamenMeyer]

@FabioLolix @stamasd please feel free to add a section to https://github.com/vegastrike/Vega-Strike-Engine-Source/blob/master/script/bootstrap; we can support more in there than we necessarily provide build environments for; but that would help folks that want to do their own custom builds as it is where our build process detects the different distros and installs dependencies.

[evertvorster]

There is a package for vegastrike-engine in the AUR, and the dependencies in the PKGBUILD is listed as: 'boost-libs' 'python' 'freeglut' 'gtk3' 'libvorbis' 'openal' 'sdl2' 'glu'

When building with that, namcap does not mention any other dependencies.

[FabioLolix]

@BenjamenMeyer I've took a quick look at function bootstrapOnArch () and bootstrapOnManjaro do you use or plan to use clang/llvm?

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@stamasd

sdl12-compat

git master need sdl2

Minimal requirements on Arch are boost-libs python freeglut gtk3 libvorbis openal sdl2 glu for run plus git cmake boost base-devel for building, depends like libpng libjpeg-turbo expat and others are already depends of other pacakges installed (yet are added in my pkgbuilds for various reasons)

This was verified by me on a new install of Artix with nothing else installed except for Xorg and XFCE4.

You can test better using devtools https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_clean_chroot#Convenience_way

[BenjamenMeyer]

I've took a quick look at function bootstrapOnArch () and bootstrapOnManjaro do you use or plan to use clang/llvm?

It doesn't matter which compiler we use. This is about installing system level dependencies so we can build at all. Typically we use GCC on Linux (VSC on Windows); not sure off hand if others get tested too, but it wouldn't surprise me if we did. Code shouldn't be specific to a compiler.

[FabioLolix]

Code shouldn't be specific to a compiler.

Of course

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Only that installing clang and llvm and then not using them is a waste, so I'll procede with removal