Aura Client

Aura is the all new multiplayer game engine from The Phoenix Project Software, and a modification of Adrenaline Gamer, built specifically for Half-Life: Zombies Ate My Neighbours.

Building

Windows

Visual Studio 2022

1. Install Visual Studio 2022. In the Visual Studio Installer, select Desktop Development for C++. Under Individual Components, have Windows 10 SDK (10.0.20348.0) selected. We have deprecated support for Visual Studio 2019 for Aura both clientside and serverside, but VS2019 may still work with Aura-CL
2. Open Visual Studio.
3. On the starting screen, click "Clone or check out code".
4. Enter https://github.com/phoenixsoftware/Aura-CL.git and press the Clone button. Wait for the process to finish. When the repository opens, Visual Studio's built-in CMake tools will setup the project for you.
5. You can build the project using Build→Build All. To find the built client.dll, go to Project→CMake Cache (x86-Debug Only)→Open in Explorer.

Manually using Git and CMake

1. Install Visual Studio 2022, Git, and CMake. Make sure to add them to PATH.
2. Clone the repository.
3. Open Git Bash in the OpenAG folder.
4. git submodule update --init
5. cmake -A Win32 -B build
6. cmake --build build --config Release

Linux

GNOME Builder

1. Set up Flathub by following the guide for your distribution.

2. Install GNOME Builder.

3. Open GNOME Builder.

4. Press the Clone Repository button, enter https://github.com/phoenixsoftware/Aura-CL.git and press Clone Project. Wait until it finishes.

   The cloning window should close, and a new window with the OpenAG project should open.

5. If Builder prompts you to install missing SDKs, press Install and wait for the process to finish. It will take a while. You can monitor the progress by pressing the circle in the top-right.

6. Click on the bar at the top-center which says OpenAG, and click the Build button.

7. Once the build finishes, in the same bar menu click the Export Bundle button. The file manager will open in a path that looks like gnome-builder/projects/OpenAG/flatpak/staging/x86_64-master. Navigate up to the OpenAG folder, then down to builds/pro.openag.OpenAG.json-... where you will find the built client.so.

8. Now you can make some changes to the code and press Build, then grab client.so from the same folder.

Manually via Terminal

1. Get a 32-bit/multilib gcc (6 and above) or clang (3.9 and above) build environment set up, as well as CMake.
2. sudo apt install mesa-common-dev
3. sudo apt install libgl1-mesa-dev
4. git submodule update --init
5. ./build.sh

WSL 2 (Windows 10 & 11)

Side-note: if you're using WSL, it's recommended you use Ubuntu 18.04 from the Microsoft Store.

Open the Windows Terminal and select the Linux distro's profile (e.g. Ubuntu 18.04). Be aware that if you haven't already, you will need to add the ninja compiler to the PATH of your distro. It is included with this repository.

1. sudo apt install gcc
2. sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib g++-multilib
3. sudo apt install clang
4. sudo apt install cmake
5. sudo apt install git
6. sudo apt install mesa-common-dev
7. sudo apt install libgl1-mesa-dev
8. Assuming you have cd'd to your Aura-CL folder; git submodule update --init
9. mkdir Linux-Build
10. cmake .. — wait for the process to finish
11. cmake --build . --config Release

LICENSE

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