Installation

These are the installation instructions for the Osirion Project. There are two ways to install the program and the game data. You can either download a precompiled package from the website, or you can obtain the source code and compile it yourself.

Downloading a precompiled package

You can find the latest version in the download section of the website:
http://ingar.satgnu.net/osirion/files

Windows

Download the windows package:
osirion-latest-win32.zip
This packages contains the win32 version of the server, the client and the game data.

Unzip the package to an approriate directory. Open the directory in explorer and click on osirion.exe to start the client.

Linux

Download the linux package:
osirion-latest-linux.zip
This packages contains the linux x86 and x86_64 version of the server, the client and the game data.

The instructions will install the game in a subdirectory of your home directory

Extract the package, a new subdirectory will be created. The actual directory name will depend on the version number. Enter the new subdirectory.

~$ tar jxvf osirion-latest.tar.bz2
osirion-0.1_258-linux/
osirion-0.1_258-linux/data/
osirion-0.1_258-linux/data/base/
 ...
osirion-0.1_258-linux/README
osirion-0.1_258-linux/osiriond.x86
osirion-0.1_258-linux/osirion.x86_64
~$ cd osirion-0.1_258-linux/
~/osirion-0.1_258-linux$

To run the 32bit client:

~/osirion-0.1_258-linux$ ./osirion.x86

To run the 64bit client:

~/osirion-0.1_258-linux$ ./osirion.x86_64

Compiling from source code

Requirements

To build The Osirion Project from source code you will need to have the following libraries and their header files installed on your system:

You will also need a recent version of gcc, GNU make, automake and libtool.

In theory, the source should compile on any POSIX-compatible platform supported by SDL, reports for other platforms (working or not) are welcome. I have succesfully compiled it myself on the following platforms:

Obtaining the source code

Obtaining the game data