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I'm looking to update the following content for the Crossfire FAQ. Does anyone have anything else to add, update, remove, etc ?

http://crossfire.real-time.com/faq/faq.html#2.1

2.1 What do I need to run Crossfire?

You will need UNIX, X-windows and an ANSI C compiler to compile this game.

Crossfire has been known to compile on the following systems (latest known version number of Crossfire that compiled on these systems is included in parantheses):

* Sun3, SunOs 4.1.1, gcc (0.90.3)
* DEC300AXP-500 (Alpha with OSF1 1.3) (0.90.3)
* Sun4 with SunOS 4.1.3 (0.90.2)
* Ultrix 4.2a (0.90.1)
* PC Compatiable, with Linux (0.89.3)
* IBM RS/6000 with AIX 1.2, X11R4/5 (0.91.4)
* HP735, HPUX, X11R5 (0.90.2)
* DEC 3100 and DEC 5000 with ULTRIX BSD 4.2
* DEC with OSF1
* VAX3100 with BSD 4.3
* IBM RT with BSD4.3
* HP9000-series (HP-UX) (very old versions of HP-UX might barf on stdarg.h)
* MIPS with RISC/os
* (UMIPS) 4.52 (?)

It has been compiled with X11R3, X11R4 and X11R5 (the editor requires X11R5).

To get directions on compilation, read the INSTALL file.

Updates...

Known to compile on the following systems:

PC x86 Compatible, with Linux (1.5.0)
PC x86 Compatible, with FreeBSD (1.5.0)
PC x86 Compatible, With Cygwin (1.4.0)

Of course, it has been compiled with X11R6.

Probably systems on which Crossfire 1.3.0 has never been tried should be removed - No one cares anymore about 0.9x versions, and the current code is far away from what it was at that time.

Add something 'bout how easy it is to set up in Debian with apt-get

From the cf-devel mailing lists..

garbled reported, " Compiles on NetBSD.. umm.. just about any version.. 1.3-1.6. Last time I checked, every machine architecture."

The Linux Journal article also mentions the client requirements

X client: libpng12, libz, libm, libX11, libXext, glibc, libdl

Gtk Client: libpng, libz, libm, libgtk, libgdk, libgmodule, libglib, libdl, libXi, libXext, libX11, libSDL, libpthread, glibc

Would it be helpful to include this informatin in the FAQ as well?