
Cygwin installation notes
=========================

This is doc/INSTALL-Cygwin, which contains specific Freeciv installation
information for the Cygwin platform.

A translated version of this file may be in language specific
subdirectories of doc/.

See also the generic installation notes in INSTALL.

Cygwin is a free Unix variant for MS Windows operating systems.
Recent versions come with an X server, Xorg.

To install Freeciv for Cygwin:

a) Install or update your Cygwin using the "Install Cygwin Now!" link
   on http://www.cygwin.com/;

   In addition to default install, install at least following packages
   to build freeciv
   (packages to be installed as dependency of another one in the list
     are not listed):
   - gcc-g++ (section Development)
   - pkg-config (Development)
   - make (Development)
   - libiconv-devel (Libs)
   - libcurl-devel (Libs)
   - zlib-devel (Libs)

  Install development package for the gui you want to compile, one of
  - libgtk2.0-devel (Libs)
  - libgtk3-devel (Libs)

  For additional functionality install also:
   - libreadline-devel (Libs)
   - gettext-devel (Development)

  To get and build freeciv development version directly from version control,
  you need also
   - subversion (Development)
   - automake1.14 (Development)
   - libtool (Development)

  To run freeciv client, you need to install also
  - xlaunch (X11)
  - fontconfig (X11)

b) Get a Freeciv source tree (the doc/ subdirectory this file is in, is in source
   tree's top directory).
   Put it in a temporary place like /tmp.

      ./configure --enable-client=<gui> [any other options e.g. --prefix=...]
   where <gui> is either "gtk2", "gtk3" or both as "gtk2,gtk3". If you
   didn't install gettext-devel, you have to give also configure option
   --disable-nls to disable Native Language Support.

   If you are building directly from version control, and not from
   tarball that has some files, including ./configure, pregenerated,
   you need to run ./autogen.sh instead of ./configure. Use same options
   as you would for directly running ./configure.

   If you get messages of missing or outdated components, install them.

c) Compile and install Freeciv:

      make
      make install

You should now have bin/freeciv-server.exe and bin/freeciv-<gui>.exe in the
directory you installed Freeciv into (/usr/local by default).
If 'make install' succeeds, the source code tree can be removed.

d) Test the results:

    /path/to/freeciv-server.exe  [any additional options]

  will start the server, but you only need it for private games.
  To start the client, you need to run the X server (this can be
  done by typing 'xlaunch'), then into a terminal type

    /path/to/freeciv-<gui>.exe  [any additional options]

More details on using server and client are in doc/README.
