The README.Cygwin that comes with CircleMUD is outdated. Below is current and works as of December 2006. Compiling CircleMUD under Microsoft Windows using CygWin CircleMUD 3.1 compiles under Cygwin without needing any special modifications. This free pseudo-Unix environment for Windows includes the "bash" shell, "gcc" family of compilers, and a full set of programs and libraries for Windows users to compile and run programs from source code intended for Unix. It can be downloaded from: http://cygwin.com/ Compiling Circle under Cygwin is basically the same as it would be under another form of Unix: 1) Download from: http://cygwin.com/setup.exe Select open. Install from Internet Select "just me" "dos" Choose a mirror site. Leave selected package as default. Select the following from devel: autoconf, gcc, make, and patchutils Click Next. Install, follow prompts. 2) Download and uncompress the latest version of CircleMUD. TBA is now recommending everyone use CWG (CircleMUD With Goodies) Buddha since it comes pre-packaged with many important features like OLC and Trigedit. Join the forum and download Buddha at: http://cwg.lazuras.org/ The forums will also be a great resource for any problems that come up. Once you download and uncompress Buddha (I use winRAR) read through the /doc directory. 3) Start the Cygwin "bash" shell by double clicking the Cygwin Icon. This will open a telnet looking window that mimics a *nix server where you can run the MUD. Go to the directory where you extracted CircleMUD by using the "cd" change directory command and "dir" directory listing to find the correct files. For example "C:\circle". "cd c:/circle" "dir" in the listed files you should see one called configure. DO NOT go into the SRC directory yet. 4) Run the configure script by typing "./configure". This will automatically detect what programs and library functions are available, and create the files "Makefile" and "conf.h" based on the results. If you get complaints from bash that it will not run the configure script either because it cannot find it or because it claims the file is not an executable, you can also try "sh configure", "sh ./configure", "bash configure" and "bash ./configure" until one of them works. 5) NOW change to the /circle/src directory "cd src", and type "make", and watch CircleMUD and the additional utilies included in the Circle distribution automatically being compiled and placed in /circle/bin. 6) Go back to /circle, and run the MUD either directly by typing "bin/circle", or by using the "./autorun &" script. 7) Start a telnet program. Open a connection to your own machine "localhost" on port 4000. You should see the MUD's login screen welcoming you. The first person to login will be promoted to IMP. If you have problems, read this document again. Most of the questions received in email or which are posted to USENET newsgroups are answered in this file, or in other documents included in the CircleMUD distribution. If you are still having problems and you're *sure* that your question is not answered in this document or in one of the others files in the /circle/doc directory, try reading the through the CircleMUD website at: http://www.circlemud.org It really can not be stressed enough: READ EVERYTHING. Credit where credit is due: Some parts of this document have been derived or outright copied from other files in the CircleMUD distribution by: Jeremy Elson David Goldstein Tony Robbins George Greer Rumble Rumble@@builderacademy.net The Builder Academy builderacademy.net 9091