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2. Installation

2.1 How to obtain BattleBots

BattleBots is available at this adress: http://www.bluefire.nu/battlebots/

2.2 Requirements

The following is needed for BattleBots to compile and run:

qt 2.x (tested on 2.2.3) devel version
X-windows (tested on 4.0.2) with headers installed
A unix system (tested on SuSE Linux 7.1)
A c++ compiler (tested with gcc 2.95.2)
make
autoconf

2.3 Compilation and installation

In order to compile and install BattleBots on your system, type the following in the base directory of the BattleBots distribution:

% ./configure
% make
% make install

If you want to have battlebots installed somewhere else than /usr/local ... you should run the install as above, then copy all folders to the new location and then edit line 2 of /etc/battlebots.conf

Since BattleBots uses

autoconf
you should have not trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the the author Andreas Agorander


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