Compiling on Linux

To successfully compile Oolite on Ubuntu some prerequisites are necessary.

• You need to have the correct packages installed.
• You need to have the Oolite project including submodules checked out.
• You need to set environment variables, then run the makefile.

All this is nicely scripted in the Github Actions workflow at https://github.com/OoliteProject/oolite/blob/master/.github/workflows/build-all.yml#L65

But there is still an issue that Oolite will rely on a number of system-provided libs and thus may file if run on other Linux flavors. Here is how it was solved in the past. Maybe someone can recreate a similar setup in Github? https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=206706#p206706