CMake Options
This page is supposed to document the cmake switches you can use when building Minetest.
General options
BUILD_CLIENT - Build Minetest client?
BUILD_SERVER - Build Minetest server?
CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE - Type of build (Release vs. Debug)
- Release - Release build
- Debug - Debug build
- RelWithDebInfo - Release build with Debug information
- MinSizeRel - Release build with
-Ospassed to compiler to make executable as small as possible
ENABLE_CURL - Whether to build with cURL; Enables use of online mod repo, public serverlist and remote media fetching via http.
ENABLE_FREETYPE - Whether to build with Freetype2; Allows using TTF fonts
ENABLE_GETTEXT - Whether to build with Gettext; Allows using translations
ENABLE_GLES - Whether to search for Open GLES headers & libraries and use them
ENABLE_LEVELDB - Whether to build with LevelDB; Enables use of LevelDB, which is much faster than SQLite, as map backend
ENABLE_SOUND - Whether to build with OpenAL, libogg & libvorbis; in-game Sounds
RUN_IN_PLACE - Whether to create a portable install (worlds, settings etc. in current directory)
USE_GPROF - Enable profiling using GProf
VERSION_EXTRA - Text to append to version (e.g. VERSION_EXTRA=foobar -> Minetest 0.4.9-foobar)
Library specific
BZIP2_INCLUDE_DIR - Linux only; directory where bzlib.h is located
BZIP2_LIBRARY - Linux only; path to libbz2.a/libbz2.so
CURL_DLL - Only if building with cURL on Windows; path to libcurl.dll
CURL_INCLUDE_DIR - Only if building with cURL; directory where curl.h is located
CURL_LIBRARY - Only if building with cURL; path to libcurl.a/libcurl.so/libcurl.lib
EGL_INCLUDE_DIR - Only if building with GLES; directory that contains egl.h
EGL_LIBRARY - Only if building with GLES; path to libEGL.a/libEGL.so
FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_freetype2 - Only if building with Freetype2; directory that contains an freetype directory with files such as ftimage.h in it
FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_ft2build - Only if building with Freetype2; directory that contains ft2build.h
FREETYPE_LIBRARY - Only if building with Freetype2; path to libfreetype.a/libfreetype.so/freetype.lib
GETTEXT_DLL - Only when building with Gettext on Windows; path to libintl3.dll
GETTEXT_ICONV_DLL - Only when building with Gettext on Windows; path to libiconv2.dll
GETTEXT_INCLUDE_DIR - Only when building with Gettext; directory that contains iconv.h
GETTEXT_LIBRARY - Only when building with Gettext on Windows; path to libintl.dll.a
GETTEXT_MSGFMT - Only when building with Gettext; path to msgfmt/msgfmt.exe
IRRLICHT_DLL - path to Irrlicht.dll
IRRLICHT_INCLUDE_DIR - directory that contains IrrCompileConfig.h
IRRLICHT_LIBRARY - path to libIrrlicht.a/libIrrlicht.so/libIrrlicht.dll.a
LEVELDB_INCLUDE_DIR - Only when building with LevelDB; directory that contains db.h
LEVELDB_LIBRARY - Only when building with LevelDB; path to libleveldb.a/libleveldb.so/libleveldb.dll
LUA_INCLUDE_DIR - Only if you want to use LuaJIT; directory where luajit.h is located
LUA_LIBRARY - Only if you want to use LuaJIT; path to libluajit.a/libluajit.so
MINGWM10_DLL - Only if compiling with MinGW; path to mingwm10.dll
OGG_DLL - Only if building with sound on Windows; path to libogg.dll
OGG_INCLUDE_DIR - Only if building with sound; directory that contains an ogg directory which contains ogg.h
OGG_LIBRARY - Only if building with sound; path to libogg.a/libogg.so/libogg.dll.a
OPENAL_DLL - Only if building with sound on Windows; path to OpenAL32.dll
OPENAL_INCLUDE_DIR - Only if building with sound; directory where al.h is located
OPENAL_LIBRARY - Only if building with sound; path to libopenal.a/libopenal.so/OpenAL32.lib
SQLITE3_INCLUDE_DIR - Only if you want to use SQLite from your OS; directory that contains sqlite3.h
SQLITE3_LIBRARY - Only if you want to use the SQLite from your OS; path to libsqlite3.a/libsqlite3.so
VORBISFILE_DLL - Only if building with sound on Windows; path to libvorbisfile-3.dll
VORBISFILE_LIBRARY - Only if building with sound; path to libvorbisfile.a/libvorbisfile.so/libvorbisfile.dll.a
VORBIS_DLL - Only if building with sound on Windows; path to libvorbis-0.dll
VORBIS_INCLUDE_DIR - Only if building with sound; directory that contains a directory vorbis with vorbisenc.h inside
VORBIS_LIBRARY - Only if building with sound; path to libvorbis.a/libvorbis.so/libvorbis.dll.a
XXF86VM_LIBRARY - Only on Linux; path to libXXf86vm.a/libXXf86vm.so
ZLIB_DLL - Only on Windows; path to zlibwapi.dll
ZLIB_INCLUDE_DIR - directory where zlib.h is located
ZLIB_LIBRARY - path to libz.a/libz.so/zlibwapi.lib