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Re: windows/pc build of xconq - help Stan !


Hello everybody!

First, it's great to just "check out" if there is anything left of that old Xconq game we played
at the university in 1988, do a search for it on hotbot and find that it actually is highly alive
and even better: it has a WINDOWS PORT!!

Guess what I've been doing (among other things) during my Christmas and New year vacation. 
Postmodern.g has been BADLY hacked by me...  I'll post. (No, I've not forgotten my family, I've
spent some time with them, honest. :-)

Thanks for keeping a good game alive, Stan (and you others who has contributed to it)!!

 --- Stan Shebs <shebs@shebs.cnchost.com> skrev: > Pranath wrote:
> > 
> > You are the only person that replied though ! Hey Stan (Shebs!) do you know
> > who did the last windows build of xconq ? and when they might be doing one
> > again ?
> 
> I did the last one that was made available for download.  But
> nowadays I only have access to a W98 that dualboots with my Linux
> system, and I don't really want to bring down my only Linux to
> run something that was crashing every few minutes when I tried
> to use it for development.  Life is too short!

Definitely!  Especially the Real Life (TM) with a family, work etc. :-).

> If someone were to loan me an NT or W2K system, I'd be willing
> to spend some time on it.  But it would be better for someone
> more knowledgeable about Windows to do the work.  I thought we
> were hearing from a couple people who were doing just that?

Ok, I made a try to install cygwin on my W98 box and yeah, after some skirmishes with the entire
setup, I managed to get it into a state where I could download the latest XConq and try to build
it.  gunzip, untar, configure worked (in that order ;-).  Build started well, thrilling me by
letting gcc run on my W98 system and compile the entire kernel.  Cool.  Then it failed in tktcl,
complaining that Xlib.h wasn't found.  Well, almost as cool too.

So, I'll not describe to you all to my efforts of installing Xwin on my cygwin system and other
stuff I tried to hack my way to a working Xconq binary.

Before I redo my Cygwin install (I think I know how to do it properly now :-) I think me and other
Xconq-on-Cygwin-builder wannabes out there might benefit from some hints from you about the
environment to compile Xconq on windows:

Did you have a Cygwin version of X-windows installed on your host or did the build do fine without
X-windows?

Did you use the latest Cygwin TK/TCL release (I think it is 8.0)?  You do mention that some
modified Cygwin TK/TCL code were needed for Xconq 7.2.96 to run, but it could be worth to test
that 
the "normal" Cygwin TK/TCL 8.0 works with Xconq 7.4.1.

I suppose the following Cygwin packages should be sensible/required to install on the host before
trying to build Xconq: ash, bash, binutils, bison, byacc, cygwin, diff, fileutils, findutils,
flex, gawk, gcc, gdb, grep, gzip, inetutils, less, m4, make, man, patch, regexp, sed, shellutils,
tar, tcltk, termcap, textutils, time, vim, w32api.

Is there any other Cygwin package missing in my list which you used?

Anything else?

I'll try to get time to setup an environment which will work and be able to compile (the latest)
Xconq.  Not only to give myself and you others a windows binary (provided I find out how the heck
to distribute it) but also to be able to contribute with some defilement... I mean... DEVELOPMENT
of the code.  Especially the AI code is tempting...

(And yeah, I'll rather use Cygwin/Win98 than Linux.  Simply because it takes time (which implies
it takes TOO much time) to setup a linux or make my Win98 dualboot.  And I like to play on my
win98 box, it's pretty powerful.  If I setup a linux box here at home, it would be on some old
wreck...)

I'll be back, and pester you all with ideas and visions on what I want into this game.  PBM
functionality (it's pretty much there, believe me), world maps being run on a single 20 sided
polyeder (isokaeder, I think it's called), better AI etc.

> Stan

/IllvilJa


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(Jakob Ilves) <illvilja@yahoo.com>
{http://www.geocities.com/illvilja}

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