FreeOrion

For the moment you need to start the server separately. Run freeoriond.exe, to start the server, then start freeorion.exe and select localhost as your server. We will be tying them together a bit better in the future, probably when the new menu system is done, such that if you select single player or to host a multiplayer game it will automagically start the server..

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Programming Lead

freeoriond.exe makes the following messages:

1058784282 DEBUG : freeoriond logger initialized.
1058784282 ERROR : ServerApp::ServerApp : Server now in mode 0 (SERVER_IDLE).
1058784282 ERROR : SDL initialization failed: No available video device
1058784282 FATAL : Initiating Exit (code 1 - error termination)
1058784282 DEBUG : SDLQuit() complete.

what shall I do now ?

Did you update your CVS checkout? This was a bug that should be fixed now, ie. in ServerApp.cpp the getenv/putenv Stuff should be included in , if it's not, just comment out the line that says something like putenv("SDL_VIDEODRIVER=dummy")

I could compile the server and the server works now, but I have Problems with the linking of both clients.

I have found new lines in the readme file:



Ahhm both cvs lines do not work on my computer and when I use the first line it wants a password.

I wonder why there are no files inside of C:\freeorion\SDL_net and C:\freeorion\SDL_net2 when I download with CVS, but anywhere I got those file - dont know.

errors at compiling humanclient:
C:\freeorion\objs\IntroScreen.o(.text+0x38b3)
[Warning] In function `ZN11IntroScreen7OnAboutEv':
[Linker error] undefined reference to `About::About()'
[Linker error] undefined reference to `About::~About()'
[Linker error] undefined reference to `About::~About()'
C:\freeorion\client\human\Makefile.win
[Build Error] [../../freeorion.exe] Error 1

with AiClient there were Problems I could fix, dont know how but compiling worked


I had to fill in the include filesC:\freeorion\SDL_net2 and C:\freeorion\SDL_net again in the Project Configuration

If I use an older compiled humanclient it shows an error when starting a game: Universe already built oder server error but not the same error as if I wouldnt execute the server.

When you say both lines don't work, do you mean that "cvs" is a "bad command or filename" or does it just not work?

Make sure you type the first, hit enter, then type the second line. If you are prompted for a password, just press enter, or if using WinCVS, press OK.

Once you've got the gigi files, make sure they are in a folder titled GG located inside your FreeOrion root directory. If the GG folder isn't there, create it.

Everything should build ok from there.

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FreeOrion Programmer

In WindowsKit.zip in the CVS repository there are directions for downloading and compiling in Windows using Dev-C++, a free C++ compiler and devlopment environment. Anybody is free to to download and compile the code at their leisure.

As for distributing binaries, that will only happen when certain benchmarks are reached, such as the completion of a feature version. We can't be concerned with releasing unstable builds every month.

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FreeOrion Programmer

I tried to compile the human client again, and got this error:

C:/Dev-Cpp/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h:188: 'FT_Pos' is used as a type, but is not defined as a type.


Any further ideas?

Is that the only error you got?

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FreeOrion Programmer

no, there are 269 errors, the first 30 or so with the same error, only different lines, then there are many like:

C:/Dev-Cpp/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h:673: syntax error before `*' token
C:/Dev-Cpp/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h:675: 'FT_Int' is used as a type, but is not defined as a type.


I guess the later errors follow from the first ones.

the first and/or the last errors are usually the most important.

in this case, the first error is the important one. Later in the list of errors, there are a lot of "blabla" was used before declaration, since there were errors in the declaration of those functions.

So, what can i do about this:

C:/Dev-Cpp/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h:188: 'FT_Pos' is used as a type, but is not defined as a type.

error

I found FT_Pos defined in freetype2/freetype/ftimage.h

Do you have that file?

I tried again compiling freeorion humanclient.
Now I could download GG and put it into the freeorion directory.
I tried the newest files.
ERROR:
C:\freeorion\objs\IntroScreen.o(.text+0x38b3)
[Warning] In function `ZN11IntroScreen7OnAboutEv':
[Linker error] undefined reference to `About::About()'
[Linker error] undefined reference to `About::~About()'
[Linker error] undefined reference to `About::~About()'
C:\freeorion\client\human\Makefile.win
[Build Error] [../../freeorion.exe] Error 1

maybe it has something to do with the files in
SDL_net and SDL_net2
I could not download, but anyhow I got those files maybe via an older download - maybe they are too old

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