This is the README accompanying the source code to Simon Tatham's
puzzle collection. The collection's web site is at
-<http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/>.
+<https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/>.
-You should find several Makefiles in the source code:
+If you've obtained the source code by downloading a .tar.gz archive
+from the Puzzles web site, you should find several Makefiles in the
+source code. However, if you've checked the source code out from the
+Puzzles git repository, you won't find the Makefiles: they're
+automatically generated by `mkfiles.pl', so run that to create them.
- - `Makefile' should work under GNU make on Linux, provided you have
- GTK installed to compile and link against. It builds GTK binaries
- of the puzzle games.
+The Makefiles include:
- - `Makefile.vc' should work under MS Visual C++ on Windows.
+ - `Makefile.am', together with the static `configure.ac', is intended
+ as input to automake. Run `mkauto.sh' to turn these into a
+ configure script and Makefile.in, after which you can then run
+ `./configure' to create an actual Unix Makefile.
+
+ - `Makefile.vc' should work under MS Visual C++ on Windows. Run
+ 'nmake /f Makefile.vc' in a Visual Studio command prompt.
- `Makefile.cyg' should work under Cygwin / MinGW. With appropriate
tweaks and setting of TOOLPATH, it should work for both compiling
application capable of running any of the puzzles, or even more
than one of them at a time.
+ - `Makefile.wce' should work under MS eMbedded Visual C++ on
+ Windows and the Pocket PC SDK; it builds Pocket PC binaries.
+
Many of these Makefiles build a program called `nullgame' in
addition to the actual game binaries. This program doesn't do
anything; it's just a template for people to start from when adding
DO NOT EDIT THE MAKEFILES DIRECTLY, if you plan to send any changes
back to the maintainer. The makefiles are generated automatically by
-the Perl script `mkfiles.pl' from the file `Recipe'. If you need to
-change the makefiles as part of a patch, you should change Recipe
-and/or mkfiles.pl.
+the Perl script `mkfiles.pl' from the file `Recipe' and the various
+.R files. If you need to change the makefiles as part of a patch,
+you should change Recipe, *.R, and/or mkfiles.pl.
The manual is provided in Windows Help format for the Windows build;
in text format for anyone who needs it; and in HTML for the Mac OS X
source file (puzzles.but), which is the preferred form for
modification. To generate the manual in other formats, rebuild it,
or learn about Halibut, visit the Halibut website at
-<http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/halibut/>.
+<https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/halibut/>.