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
+Copyright (C) 1986-2009, Dave Pare, Jeff Bailey, Thomas Ruschak, Ken
Stevens, Steve McClure
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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.
(2) Building a server
- Requirements: GNU make and GNU troff (`groff'), ANSI C, Perl,
- Bourne Shell and the common utilities.
+ Prerequisites: IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (POSIX.1-2001), GNU make, a
+ curses library, 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 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 passing
+ SHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh PATH=/usr/xpg6/bin:/usr/xpg4/bin:$PATH
+ to make. See standards(5) for details.
+
(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!