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This file describes how to install Liquid War on a UNIX-like system.
To compile and install Liquid War under GNU/Linux, you need:
- gcc, make, etc... : http://www.gnu.org/
- Python (*) : http://www.python.org/
- LaTeX (optional) : http://www.latex-project.org/
- dvips (optional) : http://www.radicaleye.com/dvips.html
- PDFLaTeX (optional) : http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/
- makeinfo (optional) : http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/texinfo.html
- Allegro (**) : http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/
(*) Python is required to build the docs. You can decide not to
build the docs so to some extent it's optional. However, if
Python is installed, you'll the "re", "string" and "xmllib" modules.
They come with the standard distribution of Python 1.5 and 2.1,
so it should not be a big problem.
(**) You won't be able to build Liquid War if you installed only
the end-user version of Allegro. The full Allegro development
package is required, since it includes the datafile compiler "dat".
FYI, the complete package weights about 2000Kb whereas the end-user
version - which won't allow you to build LW - is only about 500Kb.
Once you have all this installed, type:
$ autoconf
$ ./configure
$ make
# make install (run as root or any user who can write in /usr/local)
$ liquidwar
By default:
/usr/local/bin contains symbolic links to the binaries
/usr/local/games contains the binaries
/usr/local/share/games contains the data
/usr/local/share/doc contains the documentaion
/usr/local/share/pixmaps contains an icon for Gnome/KDE/WMaker/etc...
/usr/local/share/man/man6 contains the man page
/usr/local/share/info contains the info page
The ./configure script accepts options, the most usefull being IMHO:
--prefix=/my/path : changes the default install directory
--disable-doc-xxx : turns off the generation of doc in format 'xxx'
--enable-static : enables static linking
--disable-target-opt : turns off optimizations such as "-mcpu=i686"
Since release 5.3.3, binaries of Liquid War for GNU/Linux are available.
These binaries are statically linked against Allegro and glibc,
so they should run on any recent GNU/Linux box that has an X server running.
So if you spend too much time compiling LW, please consider using
one of those binaries, since they should work right away.
They are "slackware-like" packages, to install them, simply type (as root):
tar xzfP liquidwar-5.x.x.i386-pc-linux-gnu.tgz
Some people have successfully installed Liquid War under other
UNIX platforms such as FreeBSD, but they needed to tweak it a little bit.
I try and apply their patches and fix the mainstream source, but Liquid War
install scripts are far from being perfect. However, I'm interested in
making Liquid War available for as many platforms as possible, so if you
have any experience of Liquid War under a peculiar UNIX platform, or any
other OS such as BeOS or MacOS, please tell me 8-)
Please report any install problem to ufoot@ufoot.org
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