Steed 1.0

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Powerful text-oriented game engine in SDL and Lua.



Dependencies

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- rake 1.9 (for building sources)

- gtk+-2.0

- sdl

- sdl-mixer

- sdl-image

- sdl-ttf

- lua5.1

- iconv (optional)

- libsoup-2.4 (optional for downloading support)

- zlib (optional, also included with the program)



Also you'll need GNU C Compiler, bash and GNU make for building.



Installing

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Typically you just can use the following command (as root):



rake install --silent



In some distros it's "rake1.9.1". It works even on Windows.



You can use "rake -T" to see list of available build options.



Known problems

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- Free Software Foundation insists on placing GPL preamble in every file; this is not the case.

- Does not clears up downloaded game archives