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I heard that you needed help for installing on linux. I got it to work with some changes. I am doing GLES coding, so it is slightly specific.

Hib Engler
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Compile-for-GNU-Linux.md

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To build your raylib game for GNU/Linux you need to download raylib git repository and install some dependencies. raylib already comes with ready-to-use makefiles to compile source code, examples and templates that you can use on your projects.
To build your raylib game for GNU/Linux you need to download raylib git repository and install some dependencies. raylib already comes with ready-to-use makefiles to compile source code, examples and templates that you can use on your projects. Although raylib likes to compile and link statically by default, these are real world instructions that got raylib to compile with the dynamic libraries.
This guide is for all GNU/Linux distros (I will use APT as package manager, for Debian based distros).
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wget https://github.com/glfw/glfw/releases/download/3.2.1/glfw-3.2.1.zip
unzip glfw-3.2.1.zip
cd glfw
cmake .
cd glfw-3.2.1
cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON
sudo make install
#### Build raylib source code using make
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git clone https://github.com/raysan5/raylib.git raylib
cd raylib/src/
make PLATFORM=PLATFORM_DESKTOP # To make the static version.
make PLATFORM=PLATFORM_DESKTOP RAYLIB_LIBTYPE=SHARED # To make the dynamic shared version.
make PLATFORM=PLATFORM_DESKTOP RAYLIB_LIBTYPE=SHARED # To make the dynamic shared version. - Suggested to do this one
make PLATFORM=PLATFORM_WEB # To make web version.
**Warning:** if you want to compile a different type of library (static, ...), you must type `make clean` before the compiling.
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sudo make uninstall
sudo make uninstall RAYLIB_LIBTYPE=SHARED
### I know there is a better way to do this with cmake, but the raylib dynamic libraries were not being found in /usr/local/lib/raysan5.
cd /usr/local/lib/raysan5
mv * /usr/lib
### Compile raylib examples
Just move to folder `raylib/examples/` and run:
make PLATFORM=PLATFORM_DESKTOP
make RAYLIB_LIBTYPE=SHARED # Link to dynamic libraylib.so.
make PLATFORM=PLATFORM_DESKTOP GRAPHICS=GRAPHICS_API_OPENGLES_20 \
CFLAGS="-fPIC -I/usr/include/GL" RAYLIB_LIBTYPE=SHARED \
LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/lib/raylib -lGLESv2 -lglfw3'
#This example was for a OpenGL ES 2.0 ubuntu 16.04 platform.
To compile just one specific example:
make core/core_basic_window PLATFORM=PLATFORM_DESKTOP
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make core/core_basic_window PLATFORM=PLATFORM_DESKTOP -B
# The games folder can be made the same way as examples.
### Build raylib source code using meson
Building with meson on Linux is easy. If you have all the dependencies installed just use the following: