=================================== Building the Overviewer from Source =================================== These instructions are for building the C extension for Overviewer. Once you have finished with these instructions, head to :doc:`running`. .. note:: Pre-built Windows and Debian executables are available on the :doc:`installing` page. These kits already contain the compiled code and require no further setup, so you can skip to the next section of the docs: :doc:`running`. Get The Source ============== First step: download the platform-independent source! Either clone with Git (recommended if you know Git) or download the most recent snapshot * Git URL to clone: ``git://github.com/overviewer/Minecraft-Overviewer.git`` * `Download most recent tar archive `_ * `Download most recent zip archive `_ Once you have the source, see below for instructions on building for your system. Build Instructions For Various Operating Systems ================================================ .. contents:: :local: Windows Build Instructions -------------------------- First, you'll need a compiler. You can either use Visual Studio, or cygwin/mingw. The free `Visual Studio Community `_ is okay. You will need to select the "Desktop Development with C++" WORKLOAD. Microsoft has been changing up the names on this with the "Community" edition of Visual Studio. If nothing else works, just install every Individual Visual C++ component you can find :) Prerequisites ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You will need the following: - `Python 2.7 `_ - A copy of the `Pillow sources `_. - The Pillow Extension for Python. - The Numpy Extension for Python. - The extensions can be installed via:: c:\python27\python.exe -m pip -U numpy pillow Building with Visual Studio ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. Get the latest Overviewer source code as per above. 2. From the Start menu, navigate to 'Visual Studio 2017' and open the **'Developer Command Prompt for VS 2017'** (*or whatever year*) shortcut. A regular command or powershell prompt will *NOT* work for this. 3. cd to the folder containing the Overviewer source code. 4. Copy Imaging.h and ImPlatform.h from your Pillow sources into the current working directory. 5. First try a build:: c:\python27\python setup.py build If you encounter the following errors:: error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat then try the following:: set DISTUTILS_USE_SDK=1 set MSSdk=1 c:\python27\python setup.py build If the build was successful, there should be a c_overviewer.pyd file in your current working directory. Building with mingw-w64 and msys2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is the recommended way to build on Windows without MSVC. 1. Install msys2 by following **all** the instructions on `the msys2 installation page `_. 2. Install the dependencies:: pacman -S git mingw-w64-x86_64-python2-numpy mingw-w64-x86_64-python2-Pillow mingw-w64-x86_64-python2 mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain 3. Clone the Minecraft-Overviewer git repository:: git clone https://github.com/overviewer/Minecraft-Overviewer.git The source code will be downloaded to your msys2 home directory, e.g. ``C:\msys2\home\Potato\Minecraft-Overviewer`` 4. Close the msys2 shell. Instead, open the MinGW64 shell. 5. Build the Overviewer by changing your current working directory into the source directory and executing the build script:: cd Minecraft-Overviewer python2 setup.py build After it finishes, you should now be able to execute ``overviewer.py`` from the MINGW64 shell. Building with mingw ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. Open a MinGW shell. 2. cd to the Overviewer directory. 3. Copy Imaging.h and ImPlatform.h from your Pillow sources into the current working directory. 4. Build:: python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32 If the build fails with complaints about ``-mno-cygwin``, open the file ``Lib/distutils/cygwincompiler.py`` in an editor of your choice, and remove all mentions of ``-mno-cygwin``. This is a bug in distutils, filed as `Issue 12641 `_. Linux ----- You will need the gcc compiler and a working build environment. On Ubuntu and Debian, this can be done by installing the ``build-essential`` package. You will need the following packages (at least): * python-imaging or python-pillow * python-imaging-dev or python-pillow-dev * python-dev * python-numpy Then to build:: python2 setup.py build At this point, you can run ``./overviewer.py`` from the current directory, so to run it you'll have to be in this directory and run ``./overviewer.py`` or provide the the full path to ``overviewer.py``. Another option would be to add this directory to your ``$PATH``. Note that there is a ``python2 setup.py install`` step that you can run which will install things into ``/usr/local/bin``, but this is strongly not recommended as it might conflict with other installs of Overviewer. macOS ----- 1. Install xCode Command Line Tools by running the command (``xcode-select --install``) in terminal (located in your /Applications/Utilities folder 2. Install Python 2.7.10 if you don't already have it https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.10/python-2.7.10-macosx10.6.pkg 3. Install PIP (``sudo easy-install pip``) 4. Install Pillow (overviewer needs PIL, Pillow is a fork of PIL that provides the same funcitonality) (``pip install Pillow``) 5. Download the Pillow source files from https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/releases/latest and unpack the tar.gz file and move it to a directory you can remember 6. Download the Minercaft Overviewer source-code from https://overviewer.org/builds/overviewer-latest.tar.gz 7. Extract overviewer-[Version].tar.gz and move it to a directory you can remember 8. Go into your Pillow-[Version] folder and navigate to the /src/libImaging directory 9. Drag the following files from the Pillow-[Version]/src/libImaging folder to your overviewer-[Version] folder (``Imaging.h, ImagingUtils, ImPlatform.h``) 10. Symlink Python by running the command (``sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/local/bin/python2``) in terminal 11. In terminal change directory to your overviewer-[Version] folder (e.g ``cd Desktop/overviewer-[Version]``) 12. Build:: (``PIL_INCLUDE_DIR="/path/to/Pillow-[version]/libImaging" python2 setup.py build``) FreeBSD ------- FreeBSD is similar to OSX and Linux, but ensure you're using Python 2.7. The port of Python 2.6 has bugs with threading under FreeBSD. Everything else you should need is ported, in particular math/py-numpy and graphics/py-imaging. You may need or want to add the line:: PYTHON_VERSION=2.7 to the file /etc/make.conf, but read the ports documentation to be sure of what this might do to other Python applications on your system.