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Building Makefiles in Windows XP

Chada · 2006-11-30 17:34:33

Hi guys, i'm having difficulties running any open source games i download off sourceforge.net. Basically, they all must run on unix, and i was wondering is there an easy way to build game makefiles / run game source sucessfully on windows ? any feedback much appreciated. Dan

30-11-2006 5:34pm

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Chada

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Hi guys,

i'm having difficulties running any open source games i download off sourceforge.net. Basically, they all must run on unix, and i was wondering is there an easy way to build game makefiles / run game source sucessfully on windows ?

any feedback much appreciated.

Dan

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#2 30-11-2006 6:50pm

daymobrew

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You might need to get some Unix tools e.g. Cygwin, to mimic a Unix environment. It can provide an X server (GUI) to run the games under.
You could ask the maintainers to create executables for use on Windows.

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