iVanilla - no selling, ranged trap det, spell balances etc.

[Magnate]

Next LoS trap detection I guess, then fracblows ... and then I might actually play the game a bit too! =P

Hi Ewert - much as I remain slack-jawed with admiration at the speed of your progress, it's quite hard to follow your development intentions. Would you mind writing up a few of your ideas into tickets at trac.rephial.org? (If you don't have a login, takkaria can give you one.) That would make it much easier to, er, track them, alongside what everyone else is working on.

There are already two tickets for level feelings (#50 and #1184), but nothing for clairvoyance. If you put links to the relevant branch of your repo into tickets, we can then close them when the branches are merged into the nightlies' master.

[fizzix]

Attempted to compile ewert's git code and ran into problems in cmd4. Has anyone else attempted to compile this?

[ewert]

Attempted to compile ewert's git code and ran into problems in cmd4. Has anyone else attempted to compile this?

Using the ivanilla branch? The master is mostly something I tried to delete but it won't for some reason. :P Prolly due to starting the fork with master branch name.

Mingw32-make -f Makefile.win works on my Windows platform. Note though, birth screen is still broken with takkaria's version with my windows compiled .exe, so don't know if it has some quirk that is different ...

[ewert]

Hi Ewert - much as I remain slack-jawed with admiration at the speed of your progress, it's quite hard to follow your development intentions. Would you mind writing up a few of your ideas into tickets at trac.rephial.org? (If you don't have a login, takkaria can give you one.) That would make it much easier to, er, track them, alongside what everyone else is working on.

There are already two tickets for level feelings (#50 and #1184), but nothing for clairvoyance. If you put links to the relevant branch of your repo into tickets, we can then close them when the branches are merged into the nightlies' master.

TL;DR.

Joking. =P

Yeah I think mostly the ivanilla branch at the moment is sort of save-file for myself, not a superuseful tracking branch, as there are sometimes different things within a single commit. I guess I could make a "pushvanilla" branch, and start it from the "virgin" state and do single-thing-single-commit things to it to get it up to same place as my current vanilla, so you could more easily see what is done, how it is done and grab it.

I am trying to keep the readme.txt updated on what I have done in general sense though, and what I'm looking at next.

[ewert]

Ahh

http://github.com/ewert/angband/compare/ivanilla

That's a very cool thing, can instantly see all changes compared to original.

[Magnate]

Using the ivanilla branch? The master is mostly something I tried to delete but it won't for some reason.

Erm ... you can only delete branches. Master is the "trunk", as it were.

[Magnate]

I am trying to keep the readme.txt updated on what I have done in general sense though, and what I'm looking at next.

Ah, thanks - I hadn't spotted that. Yes - github makes it easy to see what you have changed, but I'm more interested in what you're planning to do next!

[ewert]

Erm ... you can only delete branches. Master is the "trunk", as it were.

Yeah I just thought I could delete "my" master, as it is only a copy of the true master ...

[Magnate]

Yeah I just thought I could delete "my" master, as it is only a copy of the true master ...

You can certainly do that - just nuke the whole directory and start again with git clone. But of course, deleting the trunk takes all the branches with it ...

[ewert]

Well it'd be only an extra step then I guess (to name the new fork ivanilla instead of master) but ... not bothering at the moment, let there be two branches.

[fizzix]

Using the ivanilla branch? The master is mostly something I tried to delete but it won't for some reason. :P Prolly due to starting the fork with master branch name.

yeah, I"m getting errors on the ivanilla branch.

I was using Microsoft Visual Studio Express to compile following PaulBlay's instructions here.

This can also be done relatively painlessly using
TortoiseSVN and Visual C++

Windows, Visual C++ and TortoiseSVN for Angband SVN compile

1. Download and install TortoiseSVN (requires reboot)

2. Navigate to a convenient folder (using Explore or via My Computer), right-click and choose "SVN Checkout" menu option.

3. Enter "svn://rephial.org/angband/trunk" for the url of repository. Click OK and you should have the latest SVN source on your computer in a few minutes.

4. Copy the source code somewhere else (if you want to mess around with it).

5. Install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition.

6. Start the Visual Studio 2008 command prompt and change to the
source directory of angband (e.g. C:\angbandSVN\src\ )

7. Make the file with
nmake /fMakefile.nmake RELEASE=1
(leave off the RELEASE=1 for a debug compile)

I guess I could try using MingWin, but there was some problem I had with it the first time I tried.

edit: yeah, i remember the problem I have. I have no idea how to get a command prompt with Mingw.

[ewert]

edit: yeah, i remember the problem I have. I have no idea how to get a command prompt with Mingw.

I run it from normal "cmd" window in Windows. Just have the /bin dir included in path like the guides say (from Computer Properties, extras, environment variables or whatever it is in English) and it works for me atleast.

The installation of mingw is stupid though, there is no GUI for the mingw-get but it doesn't say that in big blaring letters anywhere really obvious but you have to find the info that the error message you get is "normal" yourself. Need to use the mingw-get update/install etc cmd line cmds...

[Timo Pietilä]

I run it from normal "cmd" window in Windows. Just have the /bin dir included in path like the guides say (from Computer Properties, extras, environment variables or whatever it is in English) and it works for me atleast.

The installation of mingw is stupid though, there is no GUI for the mingw-get but it doesn't say that in big blaring letters anywhere really obvious but you have to find the info that the error message you get is "normal" yourself. Need to use the mingw-get update/install etc cmd line cmds...

I use cygwin for my compiles. Way less complicated than Mingw. IIRC I had a problem with path lengths in mingw, it didn't understand long paths (which were not that long, way way way less than XP understands).

With cygwin I haven't had any problems ever.

[Magnate]

Well it'd be only an extra step then I guess (to name the new fork ivanilla instead of master) but ... not bothering at the moment, let there be two branches.

Not quite. You can name a repo anything you like, regardless of whether you create it from scratch or fork (clone) it from an existing repo. But every repo, whatever it is called and however it is created, has a branch called "master". This isn't a branch at all, but the trunk from which other branches are made. You cannot delete this master branch without deleting the entire repo and starting over. You *can* delete any other branch in a repo, except master.

For this reason, it is sensible to do most coding and testing on other branches, and make changes to master only when you are certain you will not want to undo them.

[fizzix]

I think I got it to compile. Although, the broken birth menu does make it a pain, but I think I was able to start up a no-selling game. Unfortunately I have to get some actual work done now, but maybe I'll get a chance to play some tonight.