REQUIREMENTS vor requires the following libraries to build/run: sdl http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php sdl_mixer http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/ sdl_image http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/ And the following to create the graphics: povray http://www.povray.org/ netpbm http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/ BUILDING "cd" to the vor source directory and type "make" at the command prompt. For the brave: see also BUILDING ON WINDOWS below RUNNING "./vor" After building you should have an executable called "vor" in the current (source) directory. You can run this here, "./vor" INSTALLING Just type "make install" at the command prompt. By default it puts the executable in /usr/games/bin and the data in /usr/share/vor. If you'd like to change either, edit the Makefile before building. If you change these settings in the Makefile after building, you'll have to "make clean" and build again before installing. BUILDING ON WINDOWS 1) Grab a copy of the vor source code with the images already rendered. If you want to compile from the latest sources in the repository, you'll have to check out onto a unix machine, and "make data" to render the ships and rocks. The source tarballs usually have these rendered already. 2) download sdl source from libsdl.org. follow these instructions to install msys, mingw, and sdl: http://www.libsdl.org/extras/win32/mingw32/README.txt stay in the shell for step 3: 3) download, unpack and install sdl-mixer and sdl-image from source (should (I hope) work the same way as installing sdl in step 2 above.) http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/index.html http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/index.html 4) run this command in the vor source directory: mingw-make -f Makefile.win