newbie programer willing to help

[lythia]

Hi everybody,
This is one of these anoying newbie posts,
but I was wondering where I could download the source code for either MB of CB.
If anyone is willing to help just post a message!

[lynx_lupo]

You can get it at http://www.sourceforge.net/groups/planeshift. Don\'t know what on win$ you\'re using, but you need to get a program to tackle CVS, unless you want to work on obsolete code...

And from your statement, that you\'re a newb to programming(or the other way?) - the code is not simple.

[Karosh_Steinkatz]

If you want to use the CVS with windows, you can use WinCVS (just googled for it and it looks interesting)

[lythia]

hi

I\'ve got Microsoft visual C++ and i\'m running windows.

[cryofame]

Originally posted by lythia
hi

I\'ve got Microsoft visual C++ and i\'m running windows.

Grabbing the source is easy.  You just use the windows version of command-line CVS and then do the following sequence to get most of the parts. It is shown as you would put it in a batch file:


echo Pulling Cal3d - skeletal based 3d character animation library
echo. > cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/cal3d login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/cal3d co cal3d

echo Pulling Crystal Entity Layer (CEL)
echo. > cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/cel login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/cel co cel

echo Pulling Crystal Space 3D Software Development Kit
echo. > cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/crystal login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/crystal co CS

echo Pulling Planeshift 3D MMORPG
echo. > cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/planeshift login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/planeshift co planeshift


// rant on
Once everything is pulled others can help you get it compiling because I have not been able to get it to compile with VC6 or VS.NET after a week of working on it.  If you do get it to compile and execute then please __document__ all of the steps you did to get it to compile. It would be nice to have some documentation so others can contribute to PS.

//rant off

apologetically yours,
cryofame

[lynx_lupo]

There is documentation, just not for windoze
A)  http://www16.brinkster.com/acraig/planeshift/building.html
B) docs subfolder(but mine seems lacking any verbose info)

[lythia]

sorry,

where do I type in those commands?

[lynx_lupo]

Grabbing the source is easy. You just use the windows version of command-line CVS and then do the following sequence to get most of the parts. It is shown as you would put it in a batch file:

[lythia]

where can I get it?

[Androgos]

You don\'t sound programmer-ish..

Very well, download WinCVS( GOOGLE! ) and add it\'s path to your env path, which makes you able to run the cvs program without a full path, then run that script cryofame posted

[Greatwolf]

I personally like to use TortoiseCVS instead of WinCVS. Just do a search for that under sourceforge. Just download the TortoiseCVS binary and get it setup -- should be pretty straight forward.

Now goto the directory or drive of where you want to download the source and right-click->CVS checkout. You should see the TortoiseCVS checkout module. Next, just paste this into the CVSRoot field:

:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/planeshift

And finally click ok.

If everything works as it should you\'ll see the source getting downloaded to the location you specified.