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authorrubidium <rubidium@openttd.org>2009-08-01 16:59:05 +0000
committerrubidium <rubidium@openttd.org>2009-08-01 16:59:05 +0000
commit338c33db08173c2cc64fe82dbb29b9b7439c9f21 (patch)
tree5627df0c372514a3de8b5edd6e1b27cc1a0af6a8
parent144a84a348160397b1ef0d454d7583c197576dbf (diff)
downloadopenttd-338c33db08173c2cc64fe82dbb29b9b7439c9f21.tar.xz
(svn r17027) -Document: that Solaris needs gmake instead of make and generalise the compiling section a bit
-rw-r--r--readme.txt29
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/readme.txt b/readme.txt
index befefb41d..aeab346db 100644
--- a/readme.txt
+++ b/readme.txt
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ Table of Contents:
5.0) OpenTTD features
6.0) Configuration File
7.0) Compiling
+ * 7.1) Required/optional libraries
8.0) Translating
* 8.1 Guidelines
* 8.2 Translation
@@ -316,18 +317,12 @@ Windows:
You can also build it using the Makefile with MSYS/MinGW or Cygwin/MinGW.
Please read the Makefile for more information.
-Solaris 10:
- You need g++ (version 3 or higher), together with SDL. Installation of
- libpng and zlib is recommended. For the first build it is required
- to execute "bash configure" first. Note that ./configure does not work
- yet. It is likely that you don't have a strip binary, so use the
- --disable-strip option in that case. Fontconfig (>2.3.0) and freetype
- are optional. "make run" will then run the program.
+Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD:
+ Use "gmake", but do a "./configure" before the first build.
-Unix:
+Linux/Unix:
OpenTTD can be built with GNU "make". On non-GNU systems it's called "gmake".
However, for the first build one has to do a "./configure" first.
- Note that you need SDL-devel 1.2.5 (or higher) to compile OpenTTD.
MacOS X:
Use "make" or Xcode (which will then call make for you)
@@ -339,15 +334,6 @@ MacOS X:
BeOS:
Use "make", but do a "./configure" before the first build.
-FreeBSD:
- You need the port devel/sdl12 for a non-dedicated build.
- graphics/png is optional for screenshots in the PNG format.
- Use "gmake", but do a "./configure" before the first build.
-
-OpenBSD:
- Use "gmake", but do a "./configure" before the first build.
- Note that you need the port devel/sdl to compile OpenTTD.
-
MorphOS:
Use "make". However, for the first build one has to do a "./configure" first.
Note that you need the MorphOS SDK, latest libnix updates (else C++ parts of
@@ -368,6 +354,8 @@ DOS:
will be generated that does not need cwsdpmi.exe by adding the cswdstub.exe
to the created OpenTTD binary.
+7.1) Required/optional libraries:
+---- -------------------
The following libraries are used by OpenTTD for:
- libSDL/liballegro: hardware access (video, sound, mouse)
- zlib: (de)compressing of savegames
@@ -376,6 +364,11 @@ The following libraries are used by OpenTTD for:
- libfontconfig: searching for fonts, resolving font names to actual fonts
- libicu: handling of right-to-left scripts (e.g. Arabic and Persian)
+OpenTTD does not require any of the libraries to be present, but without
+zlib you cannot open most savegames or use the content downloading system.
+Without libSDL/liballegro on non-Windows and non-MacOS X machines you have
+no graphical user interface; you would be building a dedicated server.
+
8.0) Translating:
---- -------------------
See http://www.openttd.org/development for up-to-date information.