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commit 4d17ff2ec312d88d3b46a5adf981fcaec2eb6036 | |
parent 9a65be3f629d873d05a446dace752df961283932 | |
Author: Ben Webb <[email protected]> | |
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 23:29:56 +0000 | |
Documentation updates | |
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diff --git a/doc/installation.html b/doc/installation.html | |
t@@ -20,15 +20,13 @@ may be still be included, however. If you do not want to u… | |
installation fails, then you can obtain the source code tarball and recompile | |
the code from scratch.</p> | |
-<p><b>Prerequisites:</b> dopewars relies on the screen library curses (or the | |
-equivalent, such as ncurses or cur_colr, for the text-mode client), the GLib | |
-library, and the X toolkit <a href="http://www.gtk.org/">GTK+</a> (for the | |
-graphical client) but otherwise aims to be usable without modification on a | |
-wide variety of Unix variants. The <a href="#tarball">tarball</a> can also be | |
-compiled using the freely available | |
-<a href="http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/">Cygwin</a> suite for Win32 | |
-systems, to yield a Windows binary. dopewars is developed and tested on RedHat | |
-Linux systems.</p> | |
+<p><b>Prerequisites:</b> dopewars relies on the GLib library for all builds; | |
+this library is used for parsing the configuration files, network and string | |
+handling, and many other purposes. On a Windows system, this is the only | |
+prequisite; the standard Windows libraries are used for everything else. On a | |
+Unix/Linux system, you will also need the screen library curses (or the | |
+equivalent, such as ncurses or cur_colr) for the text-mode client, and the | |
+<a href="http://www.gtk.org/">GTK+</a> libraries for the graphical client.</p> | |
<ul> | |
<li><a href="#rpmbinary">RPM binary installation</a> | |
t@@ -92,7 +90,16 @@ the output of the above - usually /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/<i>x… | |
<p>If you don't have, or don't want to use, RPM, you can obtain the source code | |
in gzipped, tarred ("tarball") format and recompile and install it yourself. | |
This is also usually a necessity if you cannot become root (the superuser) on | |
-your Unix box.</p> | |
+your Unix box, or if you wish to build the Windows version from source code.</… | |
+ | |
+<p>Before beginning, you should ensure that you have all the necessary | |
+prequisites (see above). To compile on a Windows system, you should install | |
+the free <a href="http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/">Cygwin</a> suite, and | |
+use the included compiler. (You could use a different C/C++ Windows compiler, | |
+but you'll have to write your project files if you do this.) On either Windows | |
+or Unix systems, you will need to get the GLib library first, available for | |
+Unix <a href="http://www.gtk.org/download/">here</a> or for Windows | |
+<a href="http://user.sgic.fi/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html">here</a>.</p> | |
<ol> | |
<li>Download the | |
t@@ -131,6 +138,6 @@ with a command such as<br> | |
<ul> | |
<li><a href="index.html">Main index</a> | |
</ul> | |
-<p>Last update: <b>17-06-2001</b></p> | |
+<p>Last update: <b>18-06-2001</b></p> | |
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