Re: [Stratagus-devel] Quick Start Stratagus for MSVS

[Russell Smith]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 09:34 am, Marc Ponsen wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am looking for an open-source RTS engine to conduct my AI experiments in.
> I my experiment I want to have two computer opponents fight eachother in a
> skirmish map. One computer opponent will have static AI, the other will
> learn during gameplay. Stratagus was recommended to me as a testbed. Now I
> am trying to get the Stratagus engine running. Unfortunately I am not a
> very experienced engineeer and I am having a tough time getting things
> setup. The amount of new information, files, applications is a bit
> overwhelming. I was hoping that someone could please tell me how to setup
> or download a simple RTS game where I can edit the AI file in Microsoft
> Visual Studio c++ (if this is at all possible).

Pludov (ludovic pollet) wrote the current AI recently.  He is probably the 
best person to talk to.  However he is moving house for a new job, and will 
be unavailable till January.  However it is likely you can do what your want 
to do.

>
> I already downloaded CVS related files (have not quite figured out how this
> works however), some Stratagus files and right now I believe I am
> downloading the CVSRoot archive. Could I download or could someone please
> send me a c++ project file somewhere of the Stratagus engine, or a game
> based on this engine?

If you really do have CVS, by following the steps on the website, then in the 
"contrib" directory there is a file called msvc.zip

Archive:  msvc.zip
    testing: startool.dsp             OK
    testing: stratagus.dsp            OK
    testing: stratagus.dsw            OK
    testing: wartool.dsp              OK
    testing: war1tool.dsp             OK
No errors detected in compressed data of msvc.zip.

It has the project files in it.

However the libraries you require are not in cvs.  You may already have them.  
There are a couple of MSVC developers, so I can get the libraries off them if 
required.

Usually somebody is in #stratagus on irc.freenode.net

So if you have question, you can drop in there, or e-mail.

Regards

Russell Smith