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Building Dolphin on Linux
Compile and build Dolphin on Linux
Dolphin is compatible with both 32 and 64 bit linux distributions. Following instructions explain how to build dolphin on linux using the cmake build system.
(This howto is based upon the outdated build instruction from the project wiki page [1])
Step 1 - install the correct dependencies
Ubuntu 12.04
sudo apt-get install cmake git g++ wx2.8-headers libwxbase2.8-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev libgtk2.0-dev libsdl1.2-dev nvidia-cg-toolkit libxrandr-dev libxext-dev libglew1.5-dev libao-dev libasound2-dev libpulse-dev libbluetooth-dev libreadline-gplv2-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev
Ubuntu 11.10
sudo apt-get install cmake git g++ wx2.8-headers libwxbase2.8-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev libgtk2.0-dev libsdl1.2-dev nvidia-cg-toolkit libxrandr-dev libxext-dev libglew1.5-dev libao-dev libasound2-dev libpulse-dev libbluetooth-dev libreadline5-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev
Other Linux version?
If you run a distribution without aptitude, see the build dependencies in addendum A for a list of packages you'll need to install.
Step 2 - Get the dolphin repository
Install git if you don't have this already.
sudo apt-get install git
Get a local copy of the dolphin-emu repository.
git clone https://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/ dolphin-emu
Addendum A - dependencies
This addendum lists the dependencies to build Dolphin.
- Build Dependencies
- git
- cmake
- g++
- wx2.8-headers
- libwxbase2.8-dev
- libwxgtk2.8-dev
- libgtk2.0-dev
- nvidia-cg-toolkit
- libbluetooth-dev (optional, for real wiimotes)
- libxrandr-dev (optional, for switching desktop resolution in fullscreen mode)
- libxext-dev
- libreadline-dev
- libasound-dev (optional, for alsa sound backend)
- libpulse-dev (optional, for pulseaudio sound backend)
- libao-dev (optional, for ao sound backend)
- libopenal-dev (optional, for openal sound backend)
- libavcodec-dev (optional, for dumping frames in AVI format)
- libavformat-dev (optional, for dumping frames in AVI format)
- libswscale-dev (optional, for dumping frames in AVI format)
- libglew1.5-dev (optional, if not found will be built statically)
- liblzo2-dev (optional, if not found will be built statically)
- libsdl1.2-dev (optional, if not found will be built statically)
- libsoil-dev (optional, if not found will be built statically)
- libsfml-dev (optional, if not found will be built statically)