To install, type make install as root.

This will copy headers files to /usr/local/include/SPRITE/ and static library to /usr/local/lib/SPRITE by default.

To uninstall, type make uninstall as root.

libSPRITE assumes the Lua headers are install in /usr/local/include. Some distributions place it elsewhere. You can change where the Makefile looks for the Lua include files by specifying the LUA_INCLUDE variable in the arguments to make.

ex.: make LUA_INCLUDE=/usr/include/lua5.2

You can also change the Lua library path by setting the LUA_LIB variable.

'make test' will build the unit tests for this package. You must have cppunit installed to compile and run the unit tests. After compiling, run './run_test' to execute the unit tests. You will have to run as root to execute all test cases.

NOTE: You must start from a clean systems ('make clean') before running 'make test'. Otherwise, some tests that depend on compile time assertions will fail.

By default, libSPRITE sends output to stdout and stderr for info, warnings, and errors. To supress these messages, you can specifiy -DNO_PRINT_INFO -DNO_PRINT_WARNING -DNO_PRINT_ERROR. The best way to do that is by appending to these options to the USER_CFLAGS. For example:

make USER_CFLAGS='-DNO_PRINT_INFO -DNO_PRINT_WARNING'

There are also overides for CPPFLAGS (USER_CPPFLAGS) and LDFLAGS (USER_LDFLAGS).

To build with cmake, create a directory called build, cd to the build directory and type cmake ../.

To specify the build prefix, using the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX macro. Example

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/

By default, the build type is Release. To build unit tests us the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE macro. Example:

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Test

After specifying cmake with this macro, make will create a run_test executable in each folder. Execute the run_test executable for the folder you wish to test.

Run cmake with the -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release option to switch back to the normal build.

Documentation can be found on the Wiki

A growing Tutorial for developing applications using libSPRITE can be found here