ogre-linux-starter | OGRE 1.x C starter template for easy prototyping

Normally the easiest way to start with OGRE is from official package (libogre-1.12-dev), but I've found that it is broken in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (user input is not working at all). Luckily for us the solution is dead simple. We are going to build the library by are own!. tip: you can skip libgles2-mesa-dev package if you do not need OpenGL ES2/3 renderer support. currently the newest available 1.x version is 1.12.9. tip: omit -DOGRE_BUILD_RENDERSYSTEM_GLES2=TRUE in case you do not need OpenGL ES2/3 renderer support. note: in case you have installed libassimp-dev package, building OGRE will fail with dependency issues (No rule to make target 'Dependencies/lib/IrrXML.lib', needed by 'lib/Codec_Assimp.so.1.12.9'), that is why -DOGRE_BUILD_PLUGIN_ASSIMP=FALSE configuration option used. note: the library is installed in /usr/local directory. command, otherwise system can't see newly installed libraries and you will end up with cannot open shared object file ... complains after you try run OGRE application. tip: optionally you can also install OGRE documentation as ogre-1.12-doc and tools as ogre-1.12-tools packages.
install dependencies with
download source code from OGRE repository with
checkout newest 1.x version with
configure OGRE with
build OGRE with
install OGRE with
configure dynamic linker run-time bindings with
create link for libzzip.so.13 which is installed as libzzip-0.so.13 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with
To start a build process go to ogre-linux-starter and run scons with. use -jN option to speed up whole build process like scons -j4 and scons -c for cleaning the project directory or scons --help for further help. Scons will create ./hello as a result. So. will run the sample app. In my case I can now see. You are done, feel free to modify ...