@mniip (View Post)
That is what I thought too but I wasn't sure. I figured someone who uses arch would know.

@powderpowder1000 (View Post)

How to build <project> from git on Arch linux

TL;DR:

# pacman -S scons sdl fftw lua lua52
$ scons

Step 1: Clone the repository:

$ git clone <repository clone url>

For example

$ git clone https://github.com/simtr/The-Powder-Toy.git

Note: you need to install git first.

# pacman -S git

should do.

Step 2: Try to build the project

Navigate into the directory you just cloned

$ cd <repository name>

For example

$ cd The-Powder-Toy

Compile the project.

$ make; make install

TPT is a little different.

$ scons

Step 3: Install missing depencies

Now you probably were missing some libraries. That's what causes all the errors you got. Search 'arch <error>' on google for each error you get. Install all those packages you are hinted at, until everything works. Repeat until the project compiles.
With TPT, you are probably missing a lot of stuff, starting from scons. (I will now give output from the command also, only the relevant lines. This makes my job easier.)

# pacman -S scons
$ scons
...
SDL development library not found or not installed
# pacman -S sdl
$ scons
...
Checking for C library lua... no
# pacman -S lua
$ scons
...
fftw3f development library not found or not installed
# pacman -S fftw
$ scons
...
scons: building terminated because of errors.
strip: 'build/powder64': No such file
# pacman -S lua52
$ scons
Step 4: Running the program
Find the compiled binaries and run them. For TPT:
$ cd build
$ ./power64

And there you have it, a succesfully built project from git, on Arch linux.

@jenn4 (View Post)
Is arch using lua 5.2? --lua52 should work. If it uses 5.3 they might still have 5.2 available. You can also get luajit and use --luajit

@jacob2 (View Post)
5.3. You could

$ downgrade lua

, but that might not be a good idea if you want to use lua for other stuff. Of course, building TPT in a chroot of its own will work, if you are willing to go through the trouble.

@jacob1 (View Post)
Oh that's great. I'll update my earlier post.