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Hi there,

Neil asked me for writing guide 'how to compile PW2'. I must give you all big sorry. When I tried latest version I found out it is broken and cannot be compiled :(.

Today (9/12/01) I prepared all libraries in PW2 CVS and fixed PW2 project to be easily compiled.
Here comes step-by-step guide how to compile PW2 and PW2server under windows with MSVC++6.0

1. prepare empty directory for project (for example C:\PW2), from now refered as $CVSROOT
2. checkout into $CVSROOT these modules: 'pw2', 'pw2server', 'paragui', 'SDL_net', 'SDL', 'SDL_image', 'SDL_ttf', 'pw2vc6', 'zlib'
3. ok, now you should see $CVSROOT/pw2, $CVSROOT/pw2server, ... directories full of interesting stuff :)
4. open $CVSROOT/pw2vc6/pw2vc6.dsw in MSVC
5. choose 'paragui' project as 'active project'
6. compile libraries for all 4 configurations (Debug, Release, Debug MT, Release MT)
this will produce static paragui libraries in $CVSROOT/paragui/lib for future pw2 and pw2 server linking... read more

Hi all, I decided to turn over project leading to Neil Miller (bowties@earthlink.net). I have not time to lead PW2 project in the future. I hope PW2 project will continue. This month I will concentrate to code documentation. My tasks in this project: win packager, win dedicated server maintainer, website maintainer, doc writer.
Stay tuned.

I added basic support for A* pathfinding.
To add bot type in console:
cb <botname>
chase <botname>
bc <botname> go <x> <y>

bc means "bot command", go means to find path to [x,y] postion in map (in map tiles).

Have fun with it.

licence.txt distributed with PW2 is invalid !!!
I'm sorry for a conflict of this licence and GNU GPL. PacWars2 are licenced under GNU General Public Licence only.

Implemented support for PacWars2 server to qstat utility. Report from running PW2 servers you can find on servers page.