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{{note|These are the old directions of compiling Bullet. The directions for the current version are on the [[Compiling]] page.}}

The Bullet physics library must be manually built on versions of VDrift prior to SVN R2321 and with releases up to and including the 8/5/08 release.  A preferred version of the library is included with the VDrift source distribution as a .tgz file.
On linux, bullet can be compiled like this (replace the X with whatever bullet version is included with the VDrift source distribution):
 tar zxvf bullet-X.tgz
 cd bullet-X
Then, proceed as below using either jam or cmake as your build tool:

==Jam==
 ./autogen.sh
 ./configure
 jam bulletcollision bulletmath

==CMake==
 cmake .
 make

==autotools==
 ./autogen.sh
 ./configure
 make

These steps should put the bullet libraries into a spot in the bullet-X tree that the VDrift build files are expecting.

{{note|It is not necessary to install the bullet library on your system.  In fact, installed versions of bullet may conflict with the version included with VDrift.}}

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