The cardwords game - Chapter 2
Getting, compiling and installing cardwords

You can obtain the latest cardwords source from http://www.crosswinds.net/~cardwords/ or from your local sunsite mirror.

You will currently need the gtk+ and gtk-- libraries in order to compile and run cardwords because the only existing client program uses the gtk-- library. and run cardwords.

Modify the Makefile: The Makefile has the following entrys:

BINDIR = $(DESTDIR)/usr/local/bin
LIBDIR = $(DESTDIR)/usr/local/lib/games/cardwords
CONFDIR = $(DESTDIR)/usr/local/etc
LOCALEDIR = $(DESTDIR)/usr/local/share/locale
DEFAULT_HOMEDIR = getenv\(\"HOME\"\) # c expression.
DEFAULT_PORT = 27037

Adjust these entrys according to your needs. They have the following meaning:

BINDIR:

The executable files will be installed into this directory.

LIBDIR:

This directory will contain the charset files, the dictionary files, the card set files, the card-table files and the bonus files.

LOCALEDIR:

This is the directory where translated messages (.mo files) will be stored under LOCALEDIR/locale-abbrev/cardwords.mo.

CONFDIR:

This directory is not used yet. Later it will contain a system wide default configuration. A configuration consists of default values for charset files, the dictionary files, the card set files, the card-table files and the bonus files.

DEFAULT_HOMEDIR:

Unlike the previous ...DIR settings, this has to be a valid c++ expression, with shell escapes. Change it if your system does not set the environment variable HOME to your home directory or if you use a shell that does not use the backslash for quoting single characters.

DEFAULT_PORT:

The default tcp port the server listens to. Change it if this port is already in use on your system. This is unlikely.