[Eighthfleet-development] wohoo! it builds and runs now *g*

[Larry L. <le...@gm...>]

So, wednesday night I was up off and on most of the night poking at the
game.  (if I'd read my e-mail i would have seen your
list-o-dependencies).  I was able to get the libs installed, but had a
problem because of my distro.

Ubuntu is tracking a version of ODE that is one version too old to use
with eightfleet.  I ended up removing that package and installing the
latest ODE bits manually.  There was a final problem.  The ODE .so file
was in the wrong place for the program to use.  Copying it into the
right place worked.  Yesterday at OSCON Tim and I were poking and
managed to get it to work!

The big news is that you now have users *vbg*

I've shown the game to a friend of mine, and we'll be wanting to play
around with it.  Brace for the onslaught of change and feature requests
from us!

Also, I'm willing to hack at code, so let me know where hands are needed
most.  I'm wanting network play (PvP or players vs AI), I see the ship
and scenario editors need to be done, and there are some problems with
AI and missile guidance.  Let me know the most productive place to work
on eighthfleet!

Larry Leach
PSU CS tutor