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Building Fuego using GNU Autotools

Building from a distribution (released version)

./configure
make

./configure --help returns a full list of options. If the GCC compiler is used, the optimization level 3 makes Fuego faster (the default CXXFLAGS on GCC-based systems are usually "-g -O2"). Therefore, a recommended build configuration would be:

env CXXFLAGS="-g -O3" ./configure
make

To compile for debugging (no optimization, assertions enabled), use

env CXXFLAGS="-g" ./configure --enable-assert=yes
make

Building a development version checked out from SVN

aclocal
autoheader
autoreconf -i

The above commands need to be run only initially. Then the compilation works as in the previous section. After adding or removing files or doing other changes to configure.ac or a Makefile.am, you need to run autoreconf again before doing a make. A better way is to configure your makefiles with ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode. Then a make will automatically check, if configure.ac or a Makefile.am have changed and recreate the makefiles before the compilation if necessary.

There is also a script setup-build.sh in the root directory that sets up some commonly used build targets in the subdirectory fuego/build, such that they can be used in parallel without recreating the build configuration (using so-called VPATH builds). Simply type make in the according subdirectory. This script can also be used to recreate the makefiles after changes to configure.ac or a Makefile.am.

Installing Fuego

After building, the executable is in fuegomain/fuego. It is a GTP engine that can be used with GUIs like GoGui. Fuego can also be installed on the system with the following command:

sudo make install

Running tests

The following command compiles and runs the unit tests (and also runs other tests):

make check

Building debug and release version

Assuming that you want to build a debug and release version in different directories. This is called a VPATH-build. In this example, we choose fuego/build/autotools/debug and fuego/build/autotools/release as the build directories:

cd fuego
mkdir -p build/autotools/debug
cd build/autotools/debug
env CXXFLAGS=-g ../../../configure --enable-assert --enable-optimize=no

cd ../../../
mkdir -p build/autotools/release
cd build/autotools/release
../../../configure

Then the command make should be run in fuego/build/autotools/debug or fuego/build/autotools/release.

Further documentation links


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