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== Building the game with extra debugging ==
 
  
The game can be built to support debugging by supplying ''--enable-debug'' as an argument to ''configure'' during the build process.  Currently this enables a few code snippets for the benefit of an external debugging tool like ''gdb'',
 
and calls the compiler with ''-g'' and ''-O0'' flags.
 
You probably don't want to strip a debugging build, since the symbols are needed for the debugging tool.
 
 
An unstripped debug build on linux is over 80MB, compared to 2-3MB stripped.  It is a good idea to run a debug build of the game if you do development, since it can be necessary to diagnose serious problems.
 
  
 
== See Also ==
 
== See Also ==

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