INSTALL

General compilation notes
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Qonk uses GNU Autoconf to manage the compilation. Call

        ./configure --help

to see available options.

Like all good applications Qonk is able to be run without installation. It tries
to find its data files in ./data first and uses $(pkgdatadir)/data in a second
attempt.

Dependencies
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Qonk tries to only use components available in free software operating systems.

Install the development version of the following packages in order to compile
from source:

        SDL (>= 1.2)
        SDL_ttf (>= 2.0)
        SDL_gfx (>= 1.2)
        SDL_image (>= 1.2)

Qonk includes a modified version of guichan 0.6.1 in its sources and statically
links that into the executable. The build system was not tested to use a
system-wide installation of guichan 0.6.1. Furthermore since guichan is not
extensively used in Qonk it is planned to remove it in further releases.

Compilation
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In a published tarball you only need to execute

  ./configure
  make
  make install

(To avoid system-wide installation use the --prefix argument for ./configure !)

You get helpful error messages if something is not correct with the
dependencies.

If you want to built the sources from SVN you need to issue ./autogen.sh and
have the autotools installed (GNU Automake, GNU Autoconf, GNU libtool).