08-02-2003 23:45									#1
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Anyway, I wanna check out the source file. My C knowledge is quite basic. I know about the basic orders, functions, structures ans so on. But the source file when I open some file still seems to be quite messy. I mean I don't understand much. But could someone tell me where is it good to start learning the source file.

And another question. With what program is it compiled? And where could I get a program with what to compile it?

	09-02-2003 05:09									#2
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You should start to look in the "doc" directory, where you find some information on how Freeciv is designed. Then where you go from there depends on what you want to do, I guess.

Freeciv should compile with any C compiler, but depends on a unix shell to build, so if you are windows user, you will need either cygwin or mingwin. (In short I find development on Windows platform a lot harder than on unix.)

If you use sources from cvs, you will also need the GNU build system (autoconf, automake, etc).