diff --git a/build-minetest-here.sh b/build-minetest-here.sh
index fa8a5ea..22832ca 100755
--- a/build-minetest-here.sh
+++ b/build-minetest-here.sh
@@ -9,9 +9,42 @@ customExit(){
     # echo
 #fi
 # cd $mybuild || customExit "$0: cd build failed in '`pwd`'."
+
+if [ -z "$ENLIVEN_REPO" ]; then
+    try_default_enliven_repo="$HOME/git/EnlivenMinetest"
+    for try_enliven_repo in "$HOME/Downloads/poikilos/EnlivenMinetest" "$HOME/Downloads/EnlivenMinetest" "$try_default_enliven_repo"
+    do
+        if [ -d "$try_enliven_repo" ]; then
+            ENLIVEN_REPO="$try_enliven_repo"
+        fi
+    done
+fi
+source mtbuild.rc
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+    echo "Error:"
+    echo "source mtbuild.rc failed. Try adding it to the path or $try_default_enliven_repo (or set ENLIVEN_REPO)"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+
 if [ -z "$KEEP_MAKE" ]; then
     KEEP_MAKE=0
 fi
+INSTALL_DEPS=
+if [ ! -f "`command -v cmake`" ]; then
+    INSTALL_DEPS="$INSTALL_DEPS cmake"
+fi
+if [ ! -f "`command -v make`" ]; then
+    INSTALL_DEPS="$INSTALL_DEPS make"
+fi
+
+if [ ! -z "$INSTALL_DEPS" ]; then
+    $DEPS_INSTALL
+    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+        echo "Installing dependencies failed."
+    fi
+fi
+
 if [ -f bin/minetest ]; then
     if [ "$KEEP_MAKE" != "1" ]; then
         echo "* [build-minetest-here.sh] running 'make clean' in `pwd`..."
@@ -66,6 +99,11 @@ if [ ! -z "$BUILD_SERVER" ]; then
 fi
 echo "* [build-minetest-here.sh] running cmake in `pwd`..."
 cmake . $server_line $client_line -DOpenGL_GL_PREFERENCE=GLVND -DENABLE_GETTEXT=1 -DENABLE_FREETYPE=1 -DENABLE_LEVELDB=1 -DENABLE_REDIS=1 -DRUN_IN_PLACE=$RUN_IN_PLACE && make -j$(grep -c processor /proc/cpuinfo)  || customExit "$0: Build failed in '`pwd`'."
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+    echo
+    echo "cmake failed. Try:"
+    echo "$DEPS_INSTALL"
+fi
 echo
 if [ "@$RUN_IN_PLACE" = "@1" ]; then
     echo "[build-minetest-here.sh] WARNING: do not do make install with -DRUN_IN_PLACE=$RUN_IN_PLACE!"
diff --git a/mtbuild.rc b/mtbuild.rc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..189c92c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mtbuild.rc
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+FEDORA_DEPS="gcc-c++ irrlicht-devel gettext freetype cmake bzip2-devel libpng libjpeg-turbo libXxf86vm mesa-libGLU libsqlite3x-devel libogg-devel libvorbis-devel openal-devel curl-devel luajit-devel lua-devel leveldb-devel ncurses-devel redis hiredis-devel gmp-devel libtool"
+FEDORA_DEPS_INSTALL="sudo dnf install -y $FEDORA_DEPS"
+UBUNTU_DEPS="libncurses5-dev libgettextpo-dev doxygen libspatialindex-dev libpq-dev postgresql-server-dev-all git build-essential libirrlicht-dev libgettextpo0 libfreetype6-dev cmake libbz2-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg8-dev libxxf86vm-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libsqlite3-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libopenal-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libluajit-5.1-dev liblua5.1-0-dev libleveldb-dev"
+UBUNTU_DEPS_INSTALL="sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y $UBUNTU_DEPS"
+DEPS_INSTALL_MSG="something like    $UBUNTU_DEPS_INSTALL     #or     $FEDORA_DEPS_INSTALL"
+if [ ! -f "`command -v dnf`" ]; then
+    DEPS_INSTALL="$FEDORA_DEPS_INSTALL"
+elif [ -f "`command -v yum`" ]; then
+    FEDORA_DEPS_INSTALL="sudo yum install -y $FEDORA_DEPS"
+    DEPS_INSTALL="$FEDORA_DEPS_INSTALL"
+elif [ -f "`command -v apt`" ]; then
+    UBUNTU_DEPS_INSTALL="sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y $UBUNTU_DEPS"
+    DEPS_INSTALL="$UBUNTU_DEPS_INSTALL"
+elif [ -f "`command -v apt-get`" ]; then
+    DEPS_INSTALL="$UBUNTU_DEPS_INSTALL"
+fi
+if [ ! -z "$DEPS_INSTALL" ]; then
+    DEPS_INSTALL_MSG="$DEPS_INSTALL"
+fi
diff --git a/reset-minetest-install-source.sh b/reset-minetest-install-source.sh
index 5e0ba17..3e22de3 100755
--- a/reset-minetest-install-source.sh
+++ b/reset-minetest-install-source.sh
@@ -259,24 +259,20 @@ fi
 if [ -z "$DEPS_INSTALL" ]; then
     DEPS_INSTALL=
 fi
-FEDORA_DEPS="gcc-c++ irrlicht-devel gettext freetype cmake bzip2-devel libpng libjpeg-turbo libXxf86vm mesa-libGLU libsqlite3x-devel libogg-devel libvorbis-devel openal-devel curl-devel luajit-devel lua-devel leveldb-devel ncurses-devel redis hiredis-devel gmp-devel libtool"
-FEDORA_DEPS_INSTALL="sudo dnf install -y $FEDORA_DEPS"
-UBUNTU_DEPS="libncurses5-dev libgettextpo-dev doxygen libspatialindex-dev libpq-dev postgresql-server-dev-all git build-essential libirrlicht-dev libgettextpo0 libfreetype6-dev cmake libbz2-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg8-dev libxxf86vm-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libsqlite3-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libopenal-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libluajit-5.1-dev liblua5.1-0-dev libleveldb-dev"
-UBUNTU_DEPS_INSTALL="sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y $UBUNTU_DEPS"
-DEPS_INSTALL_MSG="something like    $UBUNTU_DEPS_INSTALL     #or     $FEDORA_DEPS_INSTALL"
-if [ ! -f "`command -v dnf`" ]; then
-    DEPS_INSTALL="$FEDORA_DEPS_INSTALL"
-elif [ -f "`command -v yum`" ]; then
-    FEDORA_DEPS_INSTALL="sudo yum install -y $FEDORA_DEPS"
-    DEPS_INSTALL="$FEDORA_DEPS_INSTALL"
-elif [ -f "`command -v apt`" ]; then
-    UBUNTU_DEPS_INSTALL="sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y $UBUNTU_DEPS"
-    DEPS_INSTALL="$UBUNTU_DEPS_INSTALL"
-elif [ -f "`command -v apt-get`" ]; then
-    DEPS_INSTALL="$UBUNTU_DEPS_INSTALL"
+if [ -z "$ENLIVEN_REPO" ]; then
+    try_default_enliven_repo="$HOME/git/EnlivenMinetest"
+    for try_enliven_repo in "$HOME/Downloads/poikilos/EnlivenMinetest" "$HOME/Downloads/EnlivenMinetest" "$try_default_enliven_repo"
+    do
+        if [ -d "$try_enliven_repo" ]; then
+            ENLIVEN_REPO="$try_enliven_repo"
+        fi
+    done
 fi
-if [ ! -z "$DEPS_INSTALL" ]; then
-    DEPS_INSTALL_MSG="$DEPS_INSTALL"
+source mtbuild.rc
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+    echo "Error:"
+    echo "source mtbuild.rc failed. Try adding it to the path or $try_default_enliven_repo (or set ENLIVEN_REPO)"
+    exit 1
 fi
 if [ $mtLibrariesCompileResult -ne 0 ]; then
     cat "$extracted_path/libraries.log"