From 8307192be1d246988112bf02128bb3ab68773aa5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stijn Buys Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:59:02 +0000 Subject: documentation updates --- doc/installation.html | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------- doc/style.css | 3 +- 2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/installation.html b/doc/installation.html index e9a075f..c6c972c 100644 --- a/doc/installation.html +++ b/doc/installation.html @@ -17,13 +17,13 @@ either download a precompiled package from the website, or you can obtain the source code and compile it yourself.

- Downloading a precompiled package + Using precompiled executables

You can find the latest version in the download section of the website:
@@ -32,19 +32,26 @@ Windows

- Download the windows package:
- osirion-latest-win32.zip
- This packages contains the win32 version of the server, the client and the game data. + Download the windows executables package:
+ osirion-win32-latest.zip
+ This packages contains the win32 version of the server and the client.

- Unzip the package to an approriate directory. Open the directory in explorer and - click on osirion.exe to start the client. + Dowload the game data package:
+ osirion-data-latest.zip
+

+ Unzip the executables package into an approriate directory. Unzip the gama data package + into this directory. For example, if you unzipped the data and the executables into + D:\Osirion then there should be a directory D:\Osirion\data\base containing the + game data. +

+ Open the game directory in explorer and click on osirion.exe to start the client.

Linux

- Download the linux package:
- osirion-latest-linux.zip
- This packages contains the linux x86 and x86_64 version of the server, the client and the game data. + Download the linux executables packages:
+ osirion-linux-latest.zip
+ This packages contains the linux x86 and x86_64 versions of the client and the server.

Extract the package, a new subdirectory will be created. The actual directory name will depend on the version number. Enter the new subdirectory. @@ -52,6 +59,14 @@ tar jxvf osirion-latest.tar.bz2 cd osirion-0.1_258-linux +

+ Dowload the game data package:
+ osirion-data-latest.zip
+

+ Unzip it: +

+unzip ../osirion-data-latest.zip
+

To run the 32bit client:

@@ -71,34 +86,33 @@ cd osirion-0.1_258-linux
 

To build The Osirion Project from source code you will need to have the following libraries and their header files installed on your system. -

To build the client or the dedicated server: - - -
zlib
+

To build the client: - - - - - - -
libSDL 1.2
libpng
libjpeg-6b
OpenGL
OpenAL 1.1
+

You will also need a recent version of gcc, GNU make, automake and libtool.

In theory, the source should compile on any POSIX-compatible platform supported by SDL, reports for other platforms (working or not) are welcome. I have succesfully compiled it myself on the following platforms: - - - - - -
linux-x86_64gcc 4.3.1
linux-x86_64gcc 4.1.2
linux-i686gcc 4.1.2
mingw32 gcc 4.2.2
- +

Obtaining the source code

@@ -109,7 +123,7 @@ cd osirion-0.1_258-linux On linux, you can use the Subversion command line client tool. The following command will create a new subdirectory osirion and download the source code into it.
-svn co svn://intranifty.no-ip.org/osirion
+svn co svn://intranifty.no-ip.org/osirion osirion
 

On windows, you can use the Turtoisesvn SubVersion client to access the @@ -117,7 +131,7 @@ svn co svn://intranifty.no-ip.org/osirion http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/

You can also get the source package from the website:
- osirion-latest-src.tar.bz2 + osirion-src-latest.tar.bz2

Compiling the source code

@@ -148,13 +162,12 @@ make

The binaries will be build in the src subdirectory of the main distribution.

- Obtaining the game data + Obtaining the game data

The game data should be located in the data subdirectory of the main distribution. - The data is not included with the source distribution. You will have to copy it from - a binary package or download it from the osirion-data subversion repository:
- svn://intranifty.no-ip.org/osirion-data + You can use the game data package from the website or get it from the osirion-data subversion repository:
+ svn://intranifty.no-ip.org/osirion-data

Run the following command from within the main distribution directory to download the game data into the data subdirectory: @@ -192,7 +205,7 @@ src/osiriond Update the source code:

 cd osirion
-make distclean
+make clean
 svn update
 

diff --git a/doc/style.css b/doc/style.css index 614f437..68a8e19 100644 --- a/doc/style.css +++ b/doc/style.css @@ -65,11 +65,12 @@ td.narrow { pre { font-family: "Courier New", "Courier", "fixed"; font-size: 14px; - margin-left:96px; + margin-left: 64px; margin-right: 64px; width: auto; background-color: e5e5e5; padding: 8px; + padding-left: 16px; } ul { list-style-type: none; -- cgit v1.2.3