Source Code

[Stephant]

Just a few quick questions, I already looked in this forum to see if there was anything related to my questions, but didnt succeed in finding anything that sincerely answered them. I was wondering if there was any other way to download the current source code of Planeshift instead of CVS, because I have been having connection problems with both Tortise and WinCVS =/ If not perhaps someone can help me to please find a way so I might be able to compile it? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. The other question was if anyone had a suggestion into what compiler I should use for compiling this (I know C++) that is perhaps a decent free one? Visual MinGW?

Thanks in advance,
Stephant

[Karosh_Steinkatz]

Sourceforge.net offers nightly tarballs of all projects. Here we go:

Cal3D
Crystal Space
CEL
Planeshift

If you need a compiler ( I suppose you are using windows), I suggest MingW, the compilation manual is in the PlaneShift cvs in /docs/compiling-mingw.txt

Edit: forgot something

[Stephant]

Thanks for the head start, but the only problem is that I didnt see any source code inside those tarballs?

[Karosh_Steinkatz]

Hmm, I haven\'t tried them before, but I thought they are backup copies of the CVS tree, because it says so on SF.net *shrugs*
Sorry that I couldn\'t help  :\\

[daecarne]

The tarballs are in CVS backup format. However, I can provide you the latest source code, if you want.

[acraig]

Getting the source code should really be done using CVS.  Since that is the easiest way to get what you are looking for.  CVS is not that hard a tool to use ( in either windows or other ) and it really is worth the time to read up and learn a bit about.   If you are having problems using WinCVS then post those issues and maybe we can resolve those.  Failing that you can always try from the command line and see what error it reports.