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Steps for building Supermodel on Ubuntu Linux

The following are instructions on how to build on Ubuntu the latest development version (or a particular release) of Supermodel from the SVN repository.

These steps have been tested on Ubuntu 10.04 32-Bit & 64-Bit and Ubuntu 11.10 32-Bit. Apart from step 1 (which simply ensures that Ubuntu has the correct packages installed) the steps should be pretty much the same for other versions of Ubuntu and for other distributions of Linux.

Steps

1. Ensure you have the necessary tools installed (this only needs to be done once):

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sudo apt-get install subversion build-essential libsdl1.2-dev libglew1.5-dev zlib1g-dev

2. Download the source from SVN:

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mkdir Supermodel
cd Supermodel

a) To download the latest development version:

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svn co https://model3emu.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/model3emu/trunk
cd trunk

b) To download a particular SVN revision of the code:

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svn co -r REVISION https://model3emu.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/model3emu/trunk
cd trunk

where REVISION is the revision number, eg 264

c) To download a particular release:

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svn co https://model3emu.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/model3emu/tags/VERSION
cd VERSION

where VERSION is the release number, eg 0.1.2a or 0.2a.

NOTE: version 0.1.2a does not build under Ubuntu 11.10.

d) Alternatively, download the latest release's source in a tar file from http://www.supermodel3.com/Download.html.

3. Compile the source:

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ln -s Makefiles/Makefile.SDL.UNIX.GCC Makefile
make

4. Run the emulator:

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cd bin
mkdir Config NVRAM Saves
cp ../Config/Supermodel.ini Config
./Supermodel PATH_TO_ROMS/GAME.zip

where PATH_TO_ROMS is the path to where all your ROMs are and GAME is the name of the game's ROM.

NOTE: for version 0.1.2a, the location of the outputted executable is different and there is no Supermodel.ini to copy.

See http://www.supermodel3.com/Usage.html for more help with running Supermodel.

Enjoy!

Are there any reason to not use Supermodel from the PPA? There are packages there since 2015 May...

>>> Building Supermodel3 on (Arch)Linux <<<

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# pacman -S gcc make sdl subversion
$ mkdir srcbuilds
$ cd srcbuilds/
$ svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/model3emu/code/trunk model3emu-code
$ cd model3emu-code/
$ ln -s Makefiles/Makefile.UNIX Makefile
$ make -j(NumberOfYourCPUs)
$ cp -r Config/ bin/
$ cd bin/
$ mkdir {NVRAM,Saves,roms}
$ ./supermodel roms/rom.zip

Smile!

Thanks for posting that! I’ll soon fix the Makefile to make those folders automatically.

addamm wrote:>>> Building Supermodel3 on (Arch)Linux <<<

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# pacman -S gcc make sdl subversion
$ mkdir srcbuilds
$ cd srcbuilds/
$ svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/model3emu/code/trunk model3emu-code
$ cd model3emu-code/
$ ln -s Makefiles/Makefile.UNIX Makefile
$ make -j(NumberOfYourCPUs)
$ cp -r Config/ bin/
$ cd bin/
$ mkdir {NVRAM,Saves,roms}
$ ./supermodel roms/rom.zip

Smile!

glu is needed:

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pacman -S glu gcc make sdl subversion

I just built from source [today] on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Scud Race Plus works perfectly in "Single" mode.

Specs:
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - x64, fully updated
Ryzen 5 3600 CPU, Radeon 5500 XT "Navi" GPU, open source AMD drivers

Install dependencies:

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sudo apt install subversion
sudo apt install libsdl2-dev
sudo apt install libsdl2-net-dev

Build it:

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svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/model3emu/code/trunk model3emu-code
cd model3emu-code/
ln -s Makefiles/Makefile.UNIX Makefile
make

Prepare:
create directories, copy files, as above posts..

Run it:

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./supermodel ./Roms/<rom.zip> -res=1920,1080 -show-fps -quad-rendering -wide-screen

Awesome! Thanks for doing this.

If anyone needs networking in Linux, just have a look at this post (TheOldDragon).

TheOldDragon wrote:Install dependencies:

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sudo apt install subversion
sudo apt install libsdl2-dev
sudo apt install libsdl2-net-dev

Build it:

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svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/model3emu/code/trunk model3emu-code
cd model3emu-code/
ln -s Makefiles/Makefile.UNIX Makefile
make

Prepare:
create directories, copy files, as above posts..

This worked like a charm, thank you.

Step 3 isn't working from what I can tell. Installing trunk from the URL isn't cannot connect. I following the post above for independence's then following the steps from the first post for installing supermodel. Any Idea or is this outdated?

nikdd wrote:Steps for building Supermodel on Ubuntu Linux

The following are instructions on how to build on Ubuntu the latest development version (or a particular release) of Supermodel from the SVN repository.

These steps have been tested on Ubuntu 10.04 32-Bit & 64-Bit and Ubuntu 11.10 32-Bit. Apart from step 1 (which simply ensures that Ubuntu has the correct packages installed) the steps should be pretty much the same for other versions of Ubuntu and for other distributions of Linux.

Steps

1. Ensure you have the necessary tools installed (this only needs to be done once):

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sudo apt-get install subversion build-essential libsdl1.2-dev libglew1.5-dev zlib1g-dev

2. Download the source from SVN:

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mkdir Supermodel
cd Supermodel

a) To download the latest development version:

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svn co https://model3emu.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/model3emu/trunk
cd trunk

b) To download a particular SVN revision of the code:

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svn co -r REVISION https://model3emu.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/model3emu/trunk
cd trunk

where REVISION is the revision number, eg 264

c) To download a particular release:

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svn co https://model3emu.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/model3emu/tags/VERSION
cd VERSION

where VERSION is the release number, eg 0.1.2a or 0.2a.

NOTE: version 0.1.2a does not build under Ubuntu 11.10.

d) Alternatively, download the latest release's source in a tar file from http://www.supermodel3.com/Download.html.

3. Compile the source:

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ln -s Makefiles/Makefile.SDL.UNIX.GCC Makefile
make

4. Run the emulator:

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cd bin
mkdir Config NVRAM Saves
cp ../Config/Supermodel.ini Config
./Supermodel PATH_TO_ROMS/GAME.zip

where PATH_TO_ROMS is the path to where all your ROMs are and GAME is the name of the game's ROM.

NOTE: for version 0.1.2a, the location of the outputted executable is different and there is no Supermodel.ini to copy.

See http://www.supermodel3.com/Usage.html for more help with running Supermodel.

Enjoy!