Linux Compilation

A guide on how to compile Metamod:Source for Linux

note

You can use the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to compile on Windows. Tested on Ubuntu 20.04

Prerequisites

• Git
• Python3
• AMBuild

File structure

For the sake of simplicity we will be doing everything in an alliedmodders folder

mkdir alliedmodders
cd alliedmodders

Ubuntu 20.04 setup

sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3-pip
sudo apt-get install clang

# make sure we can use pip installed packages anywhere
echo "export PATH=\"$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH\"" >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc

Download AMBuild

git clone https://github.com/alliedmodders/ambuild
pip install ./ambuild

# In case of an error try
# cd ambuild && python setup.py install && cd ..

Instructions

Double check you are still in the alliedmodders folder and run the following commands

mkdir hl2sdk-root
git clone https://github.com/alliedmodders/hl2sdk/ --branch cs2 hl2sdk-root/hl2sdk-cs2

git clone https://github.com/alliedmodders/metamod-source --recursive
cd metamod-source

echo "export HL2SDKCS2=/absolute/path/to/hl2sdk-root/hl2sdk-cs2" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "export MMSOURCE112=/absolute/path/to/metamod-source" >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc

mkdir build && cd build
CC=clang CXX=clang++ python3 ../configure.py -s cs2
ambuild