/*  
 *  Mancala Installation Instructions
 *  $Id: INSTALL,v 1.1.2.1 2004/01/17 20:09:02 sparrow_hawk Exp $
 *
 *  Copyright (C) 2003 Kevin Riggle
 *  <sparrow_hawk@users.sourceforge.net>
 *  http://cmancala.sourcefoge.net
 *
 *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 *  under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
 *  Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
 *  later version.
 *
 *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
 *  WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 *  General Public License for more details, a copy of which may be found in
 *  the file COPYING provided in the main directory of this release.
 *
 */

To compile mancala, you will need:
- the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL), the main graphics library
  (http://www.libsdl.org)
- SDL_image (http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/)
- SDL_ttf (http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_ttf/)
- the Bitstream Vera fonts (http://www.gnome.org/fonts/)

SDL_image in turn requires:
- libPNG (http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html)
- zlib (http://www.gzip.org/zlib/)

SDL_ttf needs:
- FreeType2 (http://www.freetype.org/)
If you're a CVS junkie, note that the SDL_ttf in question is the SDL_ttf2
module, not the SDL_ttf one.  It'll save you a lot of time and hassle.

This seems like a lot because it is.  Most modern distributions have libSDL and
the support libraries (eg. libPNG), so all you will need to compile are 
SDL_image and SDL_ttf.  Check your system before compiling anything from source
(eg. rpm -q libSDL).

To compile mancala itself, unzip the source tarball and cd to the 'src' 
directory under the 'mancala-gui-0.x.x' directory.  From there, type 'make', 
su to root, and type 'make install'.  Congratulations!  You've just installed
mancala!

If the Bitstream Vera fonts are *not* in /usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera, make
the appropriate change to main.h before compiling.  My guess is that anyone on
RedHat >=8.0 or Fedora will have no problem compiling this.  Those on other
distributions may have more problems.

Mancala is, at this point, only distributed as source.  I intend to make binary 
packages available eventually, but that is going to take some doing, and I feel
it is more important to release *something* than to wait until it is perfect.
This program doesn't have much more than a niche following anyway, so if you
want to run it I assume you can compile it yourself.  I have not been able to
make it compile on Windows (using mingw), so if anyone else has better luck I
would be very interested to hear about it.

Thanks for trying mancala out, and feel free to e-mail me at 
sparrow_hawk@users.sourceforge.net if you have any questions.
