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Re: Hello I am a newbie


Jorge Andreu García wrote:
> 
> Hello,

Hi!

> I have just downloaded Xconq and I would like to run it in a Windows 98
> OS, but I cannot find the way to do it.
> 
> First I have read in the README file that I can download a version with
> the Xconq build with a Xconq.exe, but I have downloaded the files
> xconq-7.3.3.tar.gz and xconq-7.3.3-tcltk.tar.gz and I don't find any
> .exe

Those are the sources only.  No one has yet built a binary for
Windows, the most recent Window binary I know of was for 7.2.96.

> As I would like to participate in this project I would like to see the
> sources and build them, but as I usually works with Unix compilers, I
> don't know what should I do to compile the sources in Windows. I have
> the Borland 4.5 C++ builder, but I don't know how to work with
> Makefiles.
> 
> So, what should I do/download to compile Xconq?

I see from your later message that you've picked up cygwin.  The
basic instructions are in the text file INSTALL.

Stan

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