On Tuesday 19 June 2007 22:57:30 Graham Toal wrote:

> On 6/19/07, Anand Buddhdev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > system. IMHO, the Quackle build process should check for these
> > dependencies before starting the build, instead of just plodding
> > along and spewing cryptic errors, but I guess John and Jason are busy
> > working on getting Quackle to play a better game of Scrabble, and the
> > build process isn't too important to them right now.
>
> I know it's a rather unweildly package, but it works and is ubiquitous:
>
> ./configure
> make
> make install
>
> should be all that's needed.

I agree.

> To the poster who doesn't have a C compiler installed I'ld suggest
> installing Bellard's "tcc" except I don't know for sure that Quackle
> will compile under it.  Would be nice if it did because tcc is a small
> and simple install compared to gcc.  (And a second ISO compiler is
> often helpful in finding portability issues)

Quackle is written in C++, and tcc, as far as I know, is only a C 
compiler, so it wouldn't work here.

-- 
Anand

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