Minetest is a free open-source voxel game engine with easy modding and game creation.
Copyright (C) 2010-2022 Perttu Ahola [email protected]
and contributors (see source file comments and the version control log)
In case you downloaded the source code
If you downloaded the Minetest Engine source code in which this file is
contained, you probably want to download the Minetest Game
project too. See its README.txt for more information.
You can install Git for easily keeping your copy up to date.
If you don’t want Git, read below on how to get the source without Git.
This is an example for installing Git on Debian/Ubuntu:
sudo apt install git
For Fedora users:
sudo dnf install git
Download source (this is the URL to the latest of source repository, which might not work at all times) using Git:
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/minetest/minetest.git
cd minetest
Download minetest_game (otherwise only the "Development Test" game is available) using Git:
Installation of IrrlichtMt in the system-specific library paths
For server builds with disabled BUILD_CLIENT variable, the headers from IRRLICHT_INCLUDE_DIR will be used.
NOTE: Changing the IrrlichtMt build directory (includes system installs) requires regenerating the CMake cache (rm CMakeCache.txt)
CMake options
General options and their default values:
BUILD_CLIENT=TRUE - Build Minetest client
BUILD_SERVER=FALSE - Build Minetest server
BUILD_UNITTESTS=TRUE - Build unittest sources
BUILD_BENCHMARKS=FALSE - Build benchmark sources
CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release - Type of build (Release vs. Debug)
Release - Release build
Debug - Debug build
SemiDebug - Partially optimized debug build
RelWithDebInfo - Release build with debug information
MinSizeRel - Release build with -Os passed to compiler to make executable as small as possible
ENABLE_CURL=ON - Build with cURL; Enables use of online mod repo, public serverlist and remote media fetching via http
ENABLE_CURSES=ON - Build with (n)curses; Enables a server side terminal (command line option: --terminal)
ENABLE_GETTEXT=ON - Build with Gettext; Allows using translations
ENABLE_GLES=OFF - Enable extra support code for OpenGL ES (requires support by IrrlichtMt)
ENABLE_LEVELDB=ON - Build with LevelDB; Enables use of LevelDB map backend
ENABLE_POSTGRESQL=ON - Build with libpq; Enables use of PostgreSQL map backend (PostgreSQL 9.5 or greater recommended)
ENABLE_REDIS=ON - Build with libhiredis; Enables use of Redis map backend
ENABLE_SPATIAL=ON - Build with LibSpatial; Speeds up AreaStores
ENABLE_SOUND=ON - Build with OpenAL, libogg & libvorbis; in-game sounds
ENABLE_LUAJIT=ON - Build with LuaJIT (much faster than non-JIT Lua)
ENABLE_PROMETHEUS=OFF - Build with Prometheus metrics exporter (listens on tcp/30000 by default)
ENABLE_SYSTEM_GMP=ON - Use GMP from system (much faster than bundled mini-gmp)
ENABLE_SYSTEM_JSONCPP=ON - Use JsonCPP from system
RUN_IN_PLACE=FALSE - Create a portable install (worlds, settings etc. in current directory)
USE_GPROF=FALSE - Enable profiling using GProf
VERSION_EXTRA= - Text to append to version (e.g. VERSION_EXTRA=foobar -> Minetest 0.4.9-foobar)
ENABLE_TOUCH=FALSE - Enable Touchscreen support (requires support by IrrlichtMt)
Library specific options:
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
EXTRA_DLL - Only on Windows; optional paths to additional DLLs that should be packaged
FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_freetype2 - Directory that contains files such as ftimage.h
FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_ft2build - Directory that contains ft2build.h
FREETYPE_LIBRARY - Path to libfreetype.a/libfreetype.so/freetype.lib
FREETYPE_DLL - Only on Windows; path to libfreetype-6.dll
GETTEXT_DLL - Only when building with gettext on Windows; paths to libintl + libiconv DLLs
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 - Only on Windows; path to IrrlichtMt.dll
IRRLICHT_INCLUDE_DIR - Directory that contains IrrCompileConfig.h (usable for server build only)
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.a
LEVELDB_DLL - Only when building with LevelDB on Windows; path to libleveldb.dll
PostgreSQL_INCLUDE_DIR - Only when building with PostgreSQL; directory that contains libpq-fe.h
PostgreSQL_LIBRARY - Only when building with PostgreSQL; path to libpq.a/libpq.so/libpq.lib
REDIS_INCLUDE_DIR - Only when building with Redis; directory that contains hiredis.h
REDIS_LIBRARY - Only when building with Redis; path to libhiredis.a/libhiredis.so
SPATIAL_INCLUDE_DIR - Only when building with LibSpatial; directory that contains spatialindex/SpatialIndex.h
SPATIAL_LIBRARY - Only when building with LibSpatial; path to libspatialindex_c.so/spatialindex-32.lib
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
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 - Directory that contains sqlite3.h
SQLITE3_LIBRARY - Path to libsqlite3.a/libsqlite3.so/sqlite3.lib
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; paths to vorbis DLLs
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
ZLIB_DLL - Only on Windows; path to zlib1.dll
ZLIB_INCLUDE_DIR - Directory that contains zlib.h
ZLIB_LIBRARY - Path to libz.a/libz.so/zlib.lib
ZSTD_DLL - Only on Windows; path to libzstd.dll
ZSTD_INCLUDE_DIR - Directory that contains zstd.h
ZSTD_LIBRARY - Path to libzstd.a/libzstd.so/ztd.lib
Data will be written to /home/minetest/data on the host, and configuration will be read from /home/minetest/conf/minetest.conf.
Note: If you don't understand the previous commands please read the official Docker documentation before use.
You can also host your Minetest server inside a Kubernetes cluster. See our example implementation in misc/kubernetes.yml.
Version scheme
We use major.minor.patch since 5.0.0-dev. Prior to that we used 0.major.minor.
Major is incremented when the release contains breaking changes, all other
numbers are set to 0.
Minor is incremented when the release contains new non-breaking features,
patch is set to 0.
Patch is incremented when the release only contains bugfixes and very
minor/trivial features considered necessary.
Since 5.0.0-dev and 0.4.17-dev, the dev notation refers to the next release,
i.e.: 5.0.0-dev is the development version leading to 5.0.0.
Prior to that we used previous_version-dev.
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