Building Empathy

There are going to be so many flavors of Empathy: DEmpathy(Desktop + Empathy, made for linux but, works for any desktop), AEmpathy(Android + Empathy, not yet released), iEmpathy (iOS + Empathy, not yet released), So choose the flavor you want to. And let’s build Empathy in the flavor you like!

Meeting Dependencies

Empathy has been kept away from unnecessary dependencies as much as possible, however, some dependencies must be met.

Common Dependencies

A C++ Compiler: To compile the C++ project.

make: To make the project

cmake: To intelligent make the project

pkg-config: Finding packages in an OS can be very hard. That’s where pkg-config plays by locating these packages[Used by CMake].

GLEW: To make Empathy platform-independent, some uniform libraries are required. Empathy at the very core is made in close relation with GLEW.

muparser: To parse mathematical expressions during runtime.

DEmpathy

GLFW3 To show window, we need something. Let it be GLFW.

irrKlang To make music in DEmpathy aka DoonLight (MoonLight + Desktop!)

Installing Dependencies

Linux

DEmpathy successfully builds up in Ubuntu 15.04 64-bit using the following procedure. I hope you approach a similar procedure for your Linux distro :)

Make:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

CMake:

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:george-edison55/cmake-3.x
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cmake

pkg-config:

sudo apt-get install pkg-config

GLEW and GLFW:

sudo apt-get install libglew-dev libglfw-dev libglfw3-dev

irrKlang is already placed in the DEmpathy/libs folder. Hurray! You have installed the dependencies!

Windows

Okay Windows folks, I haven’t tested this but the procedure goes something like this:

-Install the GCC compiler. Instructions can be found here: http://preshing.com/20141108/how-to-install-the-latest-gcc-on-windows/

-Install Make

-Install pkg-config

-GLEW: Download GLEW from here and follow the instructions here

-GLFW: Download from here

So let’s hope that your installation is successful. If not, and you won’t give up without compiling it from scratch, drop by an email!