-crawl- getting started in development

Howdy,

I've been playing rougelikes for a while and recently have been
interested in trying my hand a little bit of the development of the
programs. Since Crawl has always been my favorite I figured it would be
a good place to start.

Except I really am starting at the beginning. I took a few computer
programing classes in high school which covered some of the basics in C,
but I am utterly at a loss at where exactly to start. As in I am unsure
exactly how to get the source files to compile on my (Windows XP) system.

Any help on where to start, and/or recommendations for (hopefully free)
development environments? I downloaded the source from sourceforge, but
I assume I would have to get setup with a client to access the SVN, but
I haven't that part out yet. I went ahead and subscribed to the mailing
list, though I have not seen any activity on it as of yet.

I'm not a complete idiot (I hope) so a helpful link pointing it the
right direction will probably do.

Thanks,

Austin

On 2007-12-22 10:36:50, Max Mahem <MaxMahem RemoveThis @cableone.net> wrote:

> Any help on where to start, and/or recommendations for (hopefully free)
> development environments?

Dev C++ [ http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html ] has been recommended by others.
[I personally use MingW32 4.2.1, but rely on the MSYS command tool suite
instead of a GUI.] While there is a Dev C++ download that bundles MingW32
3.4.2, I would consider downloading one of MingW32 3.4.5 or MingW32 4.2.1
separately instead. [See http://www.mingw.org/ for properly indexed download
pages.] In any case, download the Win32API as well as the main MingW32
distribution if downloading MingW32 separately.

> I downloaded the source from sourceforge, but
> I assume I would have to get setup with a client to access the SVN, but
> I haven't that part out yet.

The main Subversion website is at http://subversion.tigris.org/ . See windows
packages from the download page there.