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Compiling FreeCol

In order to compile FreeCol you will need Java and the Ant build system, which you can get http://ant.apache.org/here. When these are installed, go to the root directory of FreeCol and type ant to build a JAR file containing the game. This process requires the native2ascii task, which is an optional ant task. Some Linux distributions place optional tasks in a different package, so make sure you have installed all necessary packages if you are a Linux user. The game is started using the command java -Xmx128M -jar FreeCol.jar.

If something goes wrong, please open a bug report at the http://sourceforge.net/projects/freecolSourceForge page of FreeCol. Use the command ant -projecthelp to find out about other kinds of things you can build (this manual, for example). Note that you will require additional software to build the manual, however.

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2008-04-19