Compile • Should I compile from release tag or a branch?

I'm compiling latest release which is currently v0.5.1
Because Debian sources are out of date I built freeorion from source, build went fine.

Question 1: I cloned freeorion repo from release-v0.5.1 branch and built that, however maybe I had to build from v0.5.1 tag? if yes why? what's the difference?

To install game I simply copied the following build outputs and "default" directory from source tree to custom installation directory from where I'll run the game (in Lutris):

../default
freeorion
freeorionca
freeoriond
libfreeorioncommon.so
libfreeorionparse.so
libGiGi.so

Question 2: Is copying these files and "default" directory enough or should I copy something else too?
Reason I'm asking this is because starting the game seems slow, although I don't see any errors when running freeorion from terminal.

Statistics: Posted by megalith — Fri Feb 14, 2025 8:22 am

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