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 - Build with cURL; Enables use of online mod repo, public serverlist and remote media fetching via http
ENABLE_FREETYPE - Build with Freetype2; Allows using TTF fonts
ENABLE_GETTEXT - Build with Gettext; Allows using translations
ENABLE_GLES - Search for Open GLES headers & libraries and use them
ENABLE_LEVELDB - Build with LevelDB; Enables use of LevelDB, which is much faster than SQLite, as map backend
ENABLE_SOUND - Build with OpenAL, libogg & libvorbis; in-game Sounds
DISABLE_LUAJIT - Do not search for LuaJIT headers & library
RUN_IN_PLACE - 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
General
BZIP2_INCLUDE_DIR - Linux only; directory where bzlib.h is located
BZIP2_LIBRARY - Linux only; path to libbz2.a/libbz2.so
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
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
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
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
cURL
CURL_DLL - Only on Windows; path to libcurl.dll
CURL_INCLUDE_DIR - directory where curl.h is located
CURL_LIBRARY - path to libcurl.a/libcurl.so/libcurl.lib
GLES
EGL_INCLUDE_DIR - directory that contains egl.h
EGL_egl_LIBRARY - path to libEGL.a/libEGL.so
OPENGLES2_INCLUDE_DIR - Only if building with GLES; directory that contains gl2.h
OPENGLES2_gl_LIBRARY - Only if building with GLES; path to libGLESv2.a/libGLESv2.so
Freetype2
FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_freetype2 - directory that contains an freetype directory with files such as ftimage.h in it
FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_ft2build - directory that contains ft2build.h
FREETYPE_LIBRARY - path to libfreetype.a/libfreetype.so/freetype.lib
Gettext
GETTEXT_DLL - Only om Windows; path to libintl3.dll
GETTEXT_ICONV_DLL - Only on Windows; path to libiconv2.dll
GETTEXT_INCLUDE_DIR - directory that contains iconv.h
GETTEXT_LIBRARY - Only on Windows; path to libintl.dll.a
GETTEXT_MSGFMT - path to msgfmt/msgfmt.exe
LevelDB
LEVELDB_INCLUDE_DIR - directory that contains db.h
LEVELDB_LIBRARY - path to libleveldb.a/libleveldb.so/libleveldb.dll
Sound
OGG_DLL - Only on Windows; path to libogg.dll
OGG_INCLUDE_DIR - directory that contains an ogg directory which contains ogg.h
OGG_LIBRARY - path to libogg.a/libogg.so/libogg.dll.a
OPENAL_DLL - Only on Windows; path to OpenAL32.dll
OPENAL_INCLUDE_DIR - directory where al.h is located
OPENAL_LIBRARY - path to libopenal.a/libopenal.so/OpenAL32.lib
VORBISFILE_DLL - Only on Windows; path to libvorbisfile-3.dll
VORBISFILE_LIBRARY - path to libvorbisfile.a/libvorbisfile.so/libvorbisfile.dll.a
VORBIS_DLL - Only on Windows; path to libvorbis-0.dll
VORBIS_INCLUDE_DIR - directory that contains a directory vorbis with vorbisenc.h inside
VORBIS_LIBRARY - path to libvorbis.a/libvorbis.so/libvorbis.dll.a