Welcome to Empire 4, code-named Wolfpack.
Empire is a multi-player, client/server Internet based war game.
-Copyright (C) 1986-2013, Dave Pare, Jeff Bailey, Thomas Ruschak,
+Copyright (C) 1986-2020, Dave Pare, Jeff Bailey, Thomas Ruschak,
Ken Stevens, Steve McClure, Markus Armbruster
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
If you downloaded a tarball, unpack it.
If you cloned a git repository, run bootstrap. This requires
- recent versions of Autoconf and Automake to be installed.
+ recent versions of Autoconf and Automake to be installed. See
+ also doc/contributing.
(2) Building a server
make install. The last step is optional; everything runs fine
right from the build tree.
+ If configure reports "readline: no" in its configuration summary,
+ fancy line editing doesn't work in the client. Commonly caused by
+ not having development libraries installed. On Linux, try
+ installing readline-devel.
+
If configure reports "terminfo: no" in its configuration summary,
highlighting doesn't work in the client. Commonly caused by not
having development libraries installed. On Linux, try installing
beyond the scope of this file.
Please report bugs to <wolfpack@wolfpackempire.com> or via SourceForge
-http://sourceforge.net/projects/empserver (registration required).
+<http://sourceforge.net/projects/empserver/> (registration required).
For more information or help, try rec.games.empire on Usenet, or send
e-mail to <wolfpack@wolfpackempire.com> and we'll try to answer if we
-can. Also check out our web site at "http://www.wolfpackempire.com".
+can. Also check out our web site at <http://www.wolfpackempire.com/>.
Have fun!