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+#!/bin/bash
+#A script to build working executables for debian
+
+#WARNING:  This will not work on debian wheezy.
+#          The network code was partially rewritten to use SFML2 which is not available on that distribution
+
+DEV_PACKAGES=( zlib1g-dev libpng-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsfml-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev libopenal-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev libgtkglextmm-x11-1.2-dev )
+
+BUILD_PACKAGES=( build-essential cmake git ${DEV_PACKAGES[*]} zip )
+
+BUILD_DIRECTORY="build"
+
+sudo apt-get update
+sudo apt-get install ${BUILD_PACKAGES[*]}
+
+if [ -d "$BUILD_DIRECTORY" ]; then
+  rm -r "$BUILD_DIRECTORY"
+fi
+mkdir "$BUILD_DIRECTORY"
+cd build
+# cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ..
+cmake ..
+make