Irrlicht Engine

CEGUI is also a good choice and fairly stable and i believe it has a decent feature list.
last i checked they were developing their own gui designer to create your gui's in.
( i know they had an older designer, but they were creating a new up-to-date one http://www.cegui.org.uk/phpBB2/viewforum.php ...

lol this is why i chose chaiscript myself.
i wanted to implement scripting, but i kept wasting so much time with binding and strange errors. (esp boost::python)

but chaiscript *just works*
i would recommend anybody following this thread to at least try it.
i bet its stupidly easier than most script ...

@lefticus

i'm not really an experienced programmer so i chose chaiscript simply because it was seriously easy to expose functions and even classes in comparison to the other languages (lua boost::python etc).

angelscript was easy but when it came to exposing classes it was a headache.
you can ...

i would recommend having a look at chaiscript.
designed specifically for C++ and seems very easy to use.
http://chaiscript.com
seems to be as easy as:

ChaiScript chai;
chai.add(fun(&add), "add"); //register our 'add' function under the name "add"

to bind a function.

i realise the op did use the word compiler , but from what i seen he's getting the compiler and ide mixed up. i could be wrong though. although he can just install codeblocks from the ubuntu repos.

note to op: if you haven't already make sure to install build-essential package which should install ...

try codeblocks , i've tried a few ide's on linux but i always go back to codeblocks, its cross platform too , it works on windows and linux and mac

http://www.codeblocks.org/

i think that one of the members of this forum has even made video tutorials on how to set this up for irrlicht, try ...

someone made their own implementation of how to use image files as the elements if i'm correct -> http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... t=gui+skin
maybe you can use this as a starting point.

well in my experience you wouldn't include the full directory including the lib file, like /usr/lib/libpcap.a
usually you would include in your settings->compiler->search directories->linker, /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib
( this will find most libraries needed) , or any other specific folder needed ...

i was like yourself and had continuously tried to use blender for about a year and got increasingly frustrated as to why it just wouldn't work the way i wanted it to. but that was the problem, i was trying to use modeling flows from other modeling packages , but blender has its own way of doing ...

you should make a generic demo application for eg. irrlicht and ogre.
and choose a format for your packs, so you can export your models / levels into that format.
allow your demo app to load a specified file. that way you don't have to make a new demo each time ?
that way it should be as easy as ...

done

i think simply updating the wiki ( linux build instructions) and adding the libxcursor-dev to dependency list and also the large apt-get command should solve most issues linux users ( debian based ) should be having ( as tbh they should be following the wiki instructions anyway)

i can confirm this issue, i have compiled irrlicht many times successfully
using the same way the wiki instructs, but i just downloaded trunk and i am receiving the same error after making.
if i find a fix i will post :)

edit: sudo apt-get install libxcursor-dev - this should do the trick :)
i ...

did u install build-essential?
( sudo apt-get install build-essential)

or could be you haven't got x11 development headers/libraries?

edit: noticed your post in another topic, the reply about xcursor was probably more accurate lol

i'm not gonna lie and say i know irrlicht inside out, but for example just because your model file says it needs for eg C:/examples/texture.png.
does not necessarily mean irrlicht will recognise this.
You must specify in your application that the texture resides in a certain folder or a zip archive ...