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   Heroes has been reported to compile and run on the following
architectures.  Since Heroes can use SDL, GGI, or Allegro as display
driver, the following list shows the driver which was used.

Linux/i386 (GGI, SDL, or Allegro)
     Should build out of the box.  Packages for some Linux distributions
     are available from the web pages.

     Suse 7.1 users, the libc shipped with your distribution
     (glibc-2.2-7) will crash every time Heroes calls the `ngettext()'
     function.  The workaround is to configure Heroes with `configure
     --with-included-gettext' so that it uses its own version of
     `ngettext()'.

     Red Hat 7.0 users, the compiler shipped with your distribution
     (packaged as `gcc-2.96-54.i386.rpm') is an experimental version
     which is still _bugged_ despite the pile of fixes applied.  It
     actually produces unfaithful code for Heroes, so please use
     another compiler.  Either upgrade to a newer version
     (`gcc-2.96-64.i386.rpm' is known to work) or use the one provided
     by the `kgcc' package.

Linux/m68k (SDL)
     Is reported to work when the sound (`SDL_mixer') is disabled
     (`configure --disable-sound' or `heroes -S').  Any feedback on
     this issue is welcome.  See also the `BUGS' file.

FreeBSD (SDL)
     Should build out of the box.  Packages are available from the web
     pages.

Solaris (SDL)
     Should build out of the box.

Win32/MinGW32 (SDL)
     Can be cross-compiled (native compilation untested).  The script
     used to cross build the Heroes package available on the web page
     is in the subdirectory `arch/mingw32'.

Win32/VisualC (SDL)
     See the files in the `arch/VisualC' subdirectory of the Heroes CVS
     tree.  We used to distribute these files along with the rest of the
     sources, but stopped because they are now completely out-of-date
     (they have not been updated since version 0.7).  However you can
     use them as a start point if you think about compiling Heroes with
     MSVC.

Digital Unix (GGI)
     Should build out of the box.

NetBSD (SDL)
     I had to tweak SDL 1.1.6 to get it working, and also force Heroes'
     configure to use the result of `sdl-config --static-libs' instead
     of `sdl-config --libs'.  Both issues should be fixed today (FIXME:
     need to check).

OpenBSD 2.9 (GGI & SDL)
     It looks like some configure hints need to be given when using
     either libs.

     A build of Heroes configured with GGI will apperently complete
     successfully, however the resulting binary fails to load, with the
     dynamic loader complaining about a missing symbol from libpthread.
     So you'd rather configure Heroes with
          ./configure --with-ggi=/usr/local LDFLAGS=-pthread
     Then Heroes appears to work fine.

     If you prefer to use SDL, things are different. I had to configure
     Heroes with
          ./configure --with-sdl=/usr/local LDFLAGS=-L/usr/X11R6/lib X11BASE=/usr/X11R6
     Unfortunately, the resulting binary froze when initializing SDL (in
     `SDL_init()').  Please send us a note if you are luckier.  FIXME:
     Look how other packages using SDL are built, I'm probably missing
     something.

IRIX 6.5 (SDL)
     Heroes 0.7 has been reported to compile and run with SDL 1.1.3 and
     `gcc' + libraries from `freeware.sgi.com' on IRIX 6.5.

BeOS (SDL)
     Heroes 0.9 has been reported to compile and run out of the box.

   If you got Heroes working on a platform which is not listed here,
please send a notice to <heroes-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net>.