About OpenTTD

OpenTTD is a computer game that simulates transportation networks. In OpenTTD, the player is put in charge of a small transportation company and the player must earn money by transporting passengers and goods from one place to an other.

Use the steps below to install OpenTTD 0.5.3 for Solaris 10.

Install

SDL

OpenTTD requires SDL library for displaying graphics.

Get SDL source package

wget http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-1.2.13.tar.gz

Unpack and configure

gunzip -c SDL-1.2.13.tar.gz | tar xf -
cd SDL-1.2.13/
./configure --disable-shared --prefix=/tmp/build

Compile and Install

time gmake install
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/tmp/build/lib/pkgconfig
PATH=/tmp/build/bin:$PATH
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH
cd ..

Done

OpenTTD

Get OpenTTD source package

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/openttd/openttd-0.5.3-source.tar.bz2
umask 022
bunzip2 -c openttd-0.5.3-source.tar.bz2 | tar xf -
cd openttd-0.5.3

Apply my patch for Solaris 10

wget http://softagalleria.net/download/openttd/openttd-0.5.3.diff
gpatch -p 1 -i openttd-0.5.3.diff

Configure

CC=gcc
export CC
gmake WITH_ZLIB=1 UNIX=1 MANUAL_CONFIG=1 WITH_PNG=1 WITH_SDL=1 \
  WITH_NETWORK=1 INSTALL=/ PREFIX=/opt/openttd-0.5.3/ BINARY_DIR=bin \
  DATA_DIR=. PERSONAL_DIR=.openttd USE_HOMEDIR=1 WITH_FONTCONFIG=

Compile (~5 min)

time gmake

Done

Install Program Files

Login as root, cd to the package directory and install program files

umask 022
mkdir /opt/openttd-0.5.3
( cd /opt/openttd-0.5.3; mkdir bin data lang scenario )
cp openttd /opt/openttd-0.5.3/bin/
cp lang/*.lng /opt/openttd-0.5.3/lang/
cp data/* /opt/openttd-0.5.3/data/

Done

Install Transport Tycood Data Files

OpenTTD is based on Transport Tycoon Deluxe by Chris Sawyer and the original Transport Tycoon Deluxe data files are needed to play OpenTTD. Download Transport Tycoon Deluxe for Windows from Abandonia.com, for example.

Unpack installation package

umask 022
unzip Transport\ Tycoon\ Deluxe\ for\ Windows.zip

Install data files from Transport Tycoon as root

cd 'Transport Tycoon Deluxe'
cp sample.cat *.grf /opt/openttd-0.5.3/data/
cp *.ss0 *.sv1 /opt/openttd-0.5.3/scenario/

You should now be able to run OpenTTD as

/opt/openttd-0.5.3/bin/openttd

Done

Install OpenTTD Scenarios

The OpenTTD source package does not contain any scenarios. If you want to play the official scenarios that have been built especially OpenTTD, then you must download a binary distribution package. However, OpenTTD features an excellent map generator, and Transport Tycoon comes with some scenarios, so you can also play OpenTTD without these official scenarios.

If you want to install the official scenarios, then download the binary distribution package

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/openttd/openttd-0.5.3-win32.zip

Extract scenarios

umask 022
unzip openttd-0.5.3-win32.zip scenario/\*.scn

Install scenarios as root

cp scenario/* /opt/openttd-0.5.3/data/

For even more scenarios, feel free to download my scenarios from this site. To install the scenarios, just unzip the packages and drop the .scn files to the /opt/openttd-0.5.3/scenario/ directory where the other scenarios are also located.

Complete