How to get CVS

Circon · Post by **Circon** » November 30th, 2003, 7:54 pm

I'm stupid, I know. Can someone give me detailed instructions on how to get the CVS???
Edit: Now it's down. Aaargh...

miyo · Post by **miyo** » November 30th, 2003, 8:17 pm

search for 'Anonymous CVS Access' at:

http://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs/?group=wesnoth

- Miyo

Circon · Post by **Circon** » November 30th, 2003, 8:59 pm

Um, thanks for the kind intent, but when I said detailed, I meant something like:
Open webpage X
Scroll down to Y
Press Y
Enter 'text'
choose option 2 named 'name'

Because that page looks great, but where do I enter the specified text?

miyo · Post by **miyo** » November 30th, 2003, 9:06 pm

If you are using GNU/Linux, MacOS X (might need some developer tools installed first) or other Unix - open terminal and type those lines, don't forget enter... If you are using u$win... I really don't know.

- Miyo

Circon · Post by **Circon** » December 1st, 2003, 4:03 pm

Running Windows.

Guillaume · Post by **Guillaume** » December 2nd, 2003, 1:27 pm

Hi,

I just yould like to add something. I also had many problem to update my CVS source for a long time AS I downloaded the first time the source code with the indication given on the download page which says:

Login (no password required)

cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/wesnoth login

Download

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/wesnoth co wesnoth

And when I saw yesterday this:

Software repository :

cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@savannah.nongnu.org:/cvsroot/wesnoth login

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs@savannah.nongnu.org:/cvsroot/wesnoth co wesnoth

In this forum, I tried it immediatly, and I have no more problem.
I don't know if the CVS server on subversions.gnu.org is still updated,
but if not, the "download" section of the BFW web site should be updated!!!

Guillaume

miyo · Post by **miyo** » December 2nd, 2003, 1:35 pm

WesnothCVS is a page in Wiki, there is 'edit this page' at bottom of the page, so people should feel free to contribute/fix things.

Anyway, thanks for noticing and reporting it has now been fixed.

- Miyo

Post by **Dave** » December 3rd, 2003, 8:08 pm

If you want to get the CVS version on Windows, you will need to have access to Microsoft Visual C++, as well as a CVS client. Getting a CVS client won't be a problem, as there are many free ones.

Getting Visual C++ will be a problem if you don't already have it, as it is expensive. If you do have Visual C++, I can give instructions, otherwise I am sorry but there are only a few, probably rather unappealing options:

(1) switch to another operating system, such as GNU/Linux
(2) only use release versions of the game
(3) purchase Visual C++ for $1000+

David

yawningdog · Post by **yawningdog** » December 3rd, 2003, 8:33 pm

Dave: what about cygwin? or using a free windows C++ compiler? DevX?

Sofronius · Post by **Sofronius** » December 3rd, 2003, 8:55 pm

yawningdog wrote:Dave: what about cygwin? or using a free windows C++ compiler? DevX?

I can try to compile BfW with easy to install Bloodshed Dev-C++ (Compiler: Mingw/GCC 3.2, that's just GCC ported for Windows), when I get to Windows box. I once worked with it (before switching to Linux

), and it was without any problem, but I had been using only terminal input/ouput. There may be some problems with libraries, for example. I can try it, if someone wants me to do it and tell it to me, until then, I will not waste time with it. Circon ?

Post by **Dave** » December 3rd, 2003, 8:57 pm

If anyone knows how to use Free/free/inexpensive tools to get Wesnoth compiling on Windows, please let us know. Personally I have neither the time nor compulsion to undertake such an endeavour, but would be appreciative of anyone who did this.

Davd

ziberpunk · Post by **ziberpunk** » December 3rd, 2003, 9:21 pm

Has anyone tried DJGPP? It's for DOS and it's free. I've no windows box and I don't want any, so I don't know if it works, but someone may want to give it a try

http://www.gnu.org/directory/Software_d ... djgpp.html
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/

Circon · Post by **Circon** » December 4th, 2003, 2:40 pm

Well, after much reading of info, and the cvs "manual" which is for developers, not end-users...

I ended up d/ling wesnoth.tgz. Then I managed to get PicoZip to unzip it into a .tar.gz file, then into a bunch of messed up folders.
Now I have some messed up Wesnoth-lookalike folders, and my .zip files are associated with PicoZip instead of WinZip.
No thank you.
I'm swearing off CVS'es forever now. My last time was a month ago, with ToME... blargh...

miyo · Post by **miyo** » December 4th, 2003, 6:58 pm

There is 7-Zip - http://www.7-zip.org

Then Cygwin comes with many GNU tools for u$win, like tar and gzip - http://www.cygwin.com

- Miyo

Guillaume · Post by **Guillaume** » December 5th, 2003, 7:46 am

Hi,

I've got an almost full installation of the latest cygwin version.
I'll try to compile everything, but I can't garantee anything.

Regards.
Guillaume

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