[Drod-tech] Re: Metakit 2.4.8 and SDL 1.2.5

[Matthew D. <mw...@po...>]

At 03:52 PM 11/23/02 -0800, Erik Hermansen wrote:
>Matthew, I would like to update the quick start doc.
>The dependencies will be updated to show links to
>latest Metakit, SDL, SDL_TTF, and FMOD.  Was there
>anything else you'd recommend clarifying in the docs?
>The goal is that any tenacious and competent
>programmer would have enough to get it all working in
>one sitting.

I would double-check the CVS commands you list for getting the source 
code.  I never got it to work out for me, although it turned out to be 
enough data that I could get WinCVS to work after a few guesses.

Other than that, the two most untransparent things were that the "Visual C" 
zip files in the two SDL toolkits needed to be unzipped to get the crucial 
projects to show up, and that the drod1_5.dat file needed to be set to 
read/write in order to run the DROD executable.  Other than that, 
everything else that went wrong with me was probably personal incompetence 
(like not installing SP5, frex).

-M