I'm almost completely newb to muds and unix...I am a windows xp sp3 user... I've managed to get smaugfuss running and playing with MUSHclient... I think it was precompiled so that was easy...

I've successfully compiled swfotefuss14 with cygwin after many googles and a handful of hours but it doesnt load swr.exe like smaug loads its own server...it says cygwin1.dll is missing. From what I've googled it seems a little too complicated for me to make it work.

If someone could compile it for me like the smaugfuss was done, ready for windows and not needing cygwin(preferred) or direct me to the documentation showing how to run it through cygwin(again i've already successfully compiled it) I would greatly appreciate any and all help.

P.S. This is only for me to play offline, I do not intend to build a mud, I simply want it to play when theres no internet available.

P.P.S. If someone could compile the newer swfote that would be even better! Thanks!

I dare someone to replay, even to say F off

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ok when you did a make in cygwin in the src did you first open the makefile and change

#Uncomment to compile in Cygwin
#CYGWIN = -DCYGWIN

to

#Uncomment to compile in Cygwin
CYGWIN = -DCYGWIN

after it completes look for swr.exe in the src folder and then try ./startup [] & like

./startup 4000 &

at least if i wanted it to run and me to be able to connect on port 4000

That last bit is what I needed, thank you Remcon!

I would also suggest if you have a recent computer to get virtualbox (free) and download a linux distribution and run a virtual OS on your computer

this makes compiling and such a bit easier (if you don't get a free host)


at least after you install and get everything set up

Yep, I second that idea.... cygwin is just full of pain and wrong.

http://virtualboximages.com/Debian+7.0.0+i386+Gnome+Desktop+Virtuabox+VDI+Virtual+Computer

A VM takes very little resources when not running, and if you really want to keep one up all the time you can install from scratch without using any desktop (just ssh into it)... but for learning/messing about, the gnome desktop is reasonable.

I'll check it out, thanks guys!