[CF-Devel] Race info/crossedit/compiling

[David Hurst]

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From: Michael Toennies [mailto:
     
     michael.toennies at nord-com.net
     
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Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 11:29 AM
To: David Hurst
Subject: RE: [CF-Devel] Race info/crossedit/compiling



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      I just remembner something REALLY important. Rick Tanner if you read this
     
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      could you please put a notice on the download page of crossfire. ALL linux
     
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      users must have GTK-dev installed as well as xpmlib!!!. Several
     
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      people also
     
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      have told me they could not install crossfire and I would bet the bottom
     
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      dollar it is because they didn't have one, or either of these. For debian
     
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      users it is just a simple matter of running apt-get install
     
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      gtk-dev etc. but
     
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      I don't know how you would do it for redhat etc. I think this is a very
     
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      important issue as it got me =) and it has got me in the past =). A simple
     
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      notice about the requirements would really help with alot of the compiling
     
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      etc. (especially running the configure script!). Thanks.
     
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--> Hm, what about the idea to make the first links of the clients to
binaries?

alike this:

welcome to crossfire blabla online rpg... blabla ...
to play you need a client.
We have binaries for these systems:
bin1 bin2 bin3

Or you can get the sources and compile for yourself:
source1 source2

Also you can get the source of the server.
source <--

Yup that sounds good, but this doesn't address the issue of requirements. I
think we also need to add a line in saying the major requirements for a) the
client, b) the server and c) crossedit


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     These will avoid some problems for the dummies.
     
     I don't think dummies is a fair thing to say. Just less experienced users. I
certainly had troubles I hope i'm not too much of a dummy =).

dnh