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Compiling Torque on Ubuntu with Cmake

by Taylor Fryett · in Technical Issues · 06/17/2015 (1:33 pm) · 3 replies

I copy and pasted the sudo apt-get dependencies listed on the wiki page, yet I am still getting a dependency error. Namely I am getting a fatal error because al/al.h cannot be found. I tried installing openal again (from googling around it seems like this is an openal header) as well as a few other things people suggested in some forums, but to no avail. Has anyone seen this before/knows how to solve it?

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Torque Owner Nathan Martin
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#1
06/17/2015 (8:14 pm)
What exact Ubuntu version are you using so that I can lookup the package name for you. They probably renamed or merged the package into another package that you have to install.

Taylor Fryett
#2
06/17/2015 (9:28 pm)
It's 14.04. Thanks a ton!

Taylor Fryett
#3
06/19/2015 (10:14 am)
I was able to fix this problem by copying the openAL header folder which is called "AL" to a new folder called "al" so that torque could recognize it without destroying the dependencies other programs might have. Its not the most elegant as the headers for openAL will never be updated in the new folder I have and there is no telling what software will use them, but its the best I could come up with for now.

I have a new problem concerning platformVideo.h which should be in the Engines source folder within the torque3D source folder I downloaded, but only platformVideoinfo.h exists. This seems kind of odd, any advice?