To build The Ur-Quan Masters, you need at least the following software: For Linux: GCC - GNU C Compiler http://gcc.gnu.org/ Debian package: gcc GNU Make 3.80 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/ Debian package: make For Windows: Microsoft Visual C++ 6 or 7 (or MinGW+MSYS, see INSTALL.mingw for that) Visual C++ 6.0 Processor Pack (if using VC6, to build MMX-accelerated code) http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/tools/ppack/ For Mac OS X: Apple Developer Tools (for Mac OS X 10.2 and older) http://connect.apple.com/ Xcode Tools (for Mac OS X 10.3) http://developer.apple.com/tools/macosxtools.html Additionally, The Ur-Quan Masters requires the following libraries: Note that dependancies can differ between different OS's. OpenGL v1.2 (if HAVE_OPENGL is defined, which is the default) Win32 users should have all by default, following is for Linux version: http://www.xfree86.org/ Debian package: xlibmesa-dev OR nvidia-glx OR XFree86 4.x comes with Mesa, which is a clone. Note: Mesa is a software emulation. For enjoyable results you will need hardware accelerated OpenGL (GLX). These usually conflict with mesa (can result in X server crash). SDL v1.2 The Simple Direct-Media Layer A fairly good multiplatform low level graphics library. Homepage: www.libsdl.org Download: http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php Debian package: libsdl1.2-dev (and various runtime debs) SDL_image An image loading library used with SDL. Homepage: http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/ Download: http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/release/ Debian packages: libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-image1.2-dev OpenAL (Win32 only) A cross-platform spatialized audio library. Homepage: http://www.openal.org/ SDK download: http://developer.creative.com/articles/article.asp?cat=1&sbcat=31&aid=45&file=OpenALSDK.zip libogg and libvorbis Audio codec to play Ogg Vorbis files, used for music and speech. Homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html Download: For Windows: SDK download: http://www.vorbis.com/files/1.0/windows/OggVorbis-win32sdk-1.0.zip For Linux: http://www.vorbis.com/download_unix.psp download libogg and libvorbis. Tremor (alternative for libogg and libvorbis) Audio codec to play Ogg Vorbis files, used for music and speech. This library avoids floating point math and should be used instead of libogg and libvorbis when floating point support is not available or slow (on some handhelds and game consoles). Homepage: http://www.xiph.org/vorbis/ Download: http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/Tremor (Subversion) Zlib v1.2 Data compression / decompression library Homepage: http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ Download: For Windows: http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ (mid-page 'zlib compiled DLL') If you find these aren't enough, or if you know the names of the corresponding RPM etc. packages, please report to or visit http://sourceforge.net/projects/sc2