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Compiling CircleMUD Version 3.0
under Microsoft Windows using CygWin
by David Goldstein (goldstei@cs.sunysb.edu)
CircleMUD 3.0 compiles under Cygwin without needing any special
modifications.
This free pseudo-Unix environment for Windows includes the "bash"
shell, "gcc"
family of compilers, and a full set of programs and libraries for Windows
users
to compile and run programs from source code intended for Unix. It can be
downloaded from: http://cygwin.com/
Compiling Circle under Cygwin is basically the same as it would be under
another
form of Unix:
1) Download from: http://cygwin.com/setup.exe
Select open.
Install from Internet
Select "just me" "dos"
Choose a mirror site.
Leave selected package as default. Click Next.
Install, follow prompts.
2) Download and uncompress the latest version of CircleMUD according to the
instructions in the main README file.
ftp://ftp.circlemud.org/pub/CircleMUD/3.x/
3) Start the "bash" shell and go to the directory where you have extracted
CircleMUD (we will assume "C:\circle30bplXX", or "/circle30bplXX" from
within bash, where 'XX' is the current patchlevel). DO NOT go into the
"src" directory yet.
5) Run the shell script "./configure". This will automatically detect
whether or not certain programs and library functions are available, and
create the files "Makefile" and "conf.h" based on the results.
If you get complains from bash that it will not run the configure script
either because it cannot find it or because of it claims the file is not
an executable, you can also try "sh configure", "sh ./configure",
"bash configure" and "bash ./configure" until one of them works.
6) NOW change to the /circle30bplXX/src directory, and type "make", and
watch
CircleMUD and the additional utilies included in the Circle distribution
automatically being compiled and placed in /circle30bplXX/bin. (Remember,
'XX' is the current patchlevel number, e.g., 'circle30bpl20'.)
7) Make sure your TCP/IP stack is installed, correctly configured, and
running.
If you are already using TCP/IP applications from your Windows machine
such
as Netscape or telnet, then no changes should be necessary; otherwise go
to
the Control Panel's "Network" settings, select "Add Protocol", and add
Microsoft's TCP/IP. Consult the documentation for Windows if you have
any
additional questions about how to set up TCP/IP under Windows. (Do not
send mail to me or Jeremy Elson on this topic. Microsoft has an
excellent
tech support line, and chances are that your ISP has a decent tech
support
line too.)
YOU MUST INSTALL AND CONFIGURE YOUR TCP/IP STACK, EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT
CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET.
8) Go back to /circle30bplXX, and run the MUD either directly by typing
"bin/circle", or by using the "./autorun" script.
9) Start a telnet program (SEE NOTE BELOW). Open a connection to your
own machine ("localhost", or whatever the name of your machine happens
to be) on port 4000. You should see the MUD's login screen welcoming
you and asking for your name.
VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: The standard telnet program that comes free with
Windows 95 and NT does *not* work correctly for connecting to any MUD
because it does not support telnet's line-mode interface (so you can't
see what you are typing). Note that simply turning on the "local echo"
option does not fix the problem; this prevents echo from being turned
off while you're typing your password, and screws up the display if you
try to hit the backspace key too many times.
Do not use Microsoft's telnet applet -- instead, use EWAN, CRT, zMUD, or
any other Winsock telnet application. EWAN and CRT can be downloaded
from any number of sites (for example, www.windows95.com). zMUD is an
excellent MUD client; for more information, see the official home page
at http://zuggsoft.com/zmud/down.asp.
If you have problems, read this document again. Most of the questions which
Jeremy Elson receives in email or which are posted to USENET newsgroups are
answered in this README file, or in other documents included in the
CircleMUD
distribution. If you are still having problems and you're *sure* that your
question is not answered in this document or in one of the others files
in the /circle30bplXX/doc directory, try reading the CircleMUD FAQ at
ftp://ftp.circlemud.org/pub/CircleMUD/FAQ.
Credit where credit is due:
Some parts of this document have been derived or outright copied from other
files in the CircleMUD distribution, including the files README and
README.WIN
by Jeremy Elson.
-David Goldstein
(Information from Tony Robbins.)
-George Greer
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