Welcome to Empire 4, code-named Wolfpack.
Empire is a multi-player, client/server Internet based war game.
-Copyright (C) 1986-2006, Dave Pare, Jeff Bailey, Thomas Ruschak, Ken
-Stevens, Steve McClure
+Copyright (C) 1986-2021, Dave Pare, Jeff Bailey, Thomas Ruschak,
+Ken Stevens, Steve McClure, Markus Armbruster
-This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License (in file
+the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License (in file
`COPYING'), or (at your option) any later version.
See file `CREDITS' for a list of contributors.
If you downloaded a tarball, unpack it.
- If you're pulling from CVS, check out and run bootstrap. This
- requires Autoconf and Automake to be installed.
+ If you cloned a git repository, run bootstrap. This requires
+ recent versions of Autoconf and Automake to be installed. See
+ also doc/contributing.
(2) Building a server
- Requirements: GNU make and GNU troff (`groff'), ANSI C, a curses
- library, Perl, Bourne Shell and the common utilities.
+ Prerequisites: IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (POSIX.1-2001) with the X/Open
+ System Interfaces Extension, GNU make, Perl, and either nroff or
+ GNU troff (`groff').
See file `INSTALL' for detailed compilation and installation
instructions. Quick guide for the impatient: run configure; make;
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
+ ncurses-devel.
+
If make fails without doing anything, you're probably not using
GNU make. Some systems have it installed as `gmake'.
+ Solaris supports POSIX.1-2001, but you need to set up your
+ environment for that. Try
+
+ SHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh
+ PATH=/usr/xpg6/bin:/usr/xpg4/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:$PATH
+
+ See standards(5) for details.
+
+ Likewise, AIX needs XPG_SUS_ENV=ON.
+
(3) Creating a game
* Create a configuration for your game. make install installs one
To change the deity password, use `change re <password>'.
- FIXME auth
-
* Create countries with `exec newcap_script'.
Your game is now up!
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!