X-Git-Url: http://git.pond.sub.org/?p=empserver;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=39a52d84b7dd11f84e589562efff5f48966aec24;hp=8c4964ce5e77c22a82f7b0abc82f32c49b7b6cfe;hb=HEAD;hpb=df4925d696e7ec0fc03065058ac3cd00504bcce5 diff --git a/README b/README index 8c4964ce5..39a52d84b 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ 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) 1986-2021, Dave Pare, Jeff Bailey, Thomas Ruschak, Ken Stevens, Steve McClure, Markus Armbruster This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify @@ -21,25 +21,42 @@ To build the server and set up a game, follow the steps below. 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 - Prerequisites: IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (POSIX.1-2001), GNU make, a - curses library, Perl, and either nroff or GNU troff (`groff'). + 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 passing - SHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh PATH=/usr/xpg6/bin:/usr/xpg4/bin:$PATH - to make. See standards(5) for details. + environment for that. Try + + SHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh + PATH=/usr/xpg6/bin:/usr/xpg4/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:$PATH + + See standards(5) for details. + + Likewise, AIX needs XPG_SUS_ENV=ON. (3) Creating a game @@ -84,11 +101,11 @@ Naturally, there's more to running a real game than that, but that's beyond the scope of this file. Please report bugs to or via SourceForge -http://sourceforge.net/projects/empserver (registration required). + (registration required). For more information or help, try rec.games.empire on Usenet, or send e-mail to 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 . Have fun!