How to get and install Civworld, http://www.freeciv.org/civworld/

Civworld must be compiled from source, in a Unix-like OS environment
such as Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, MS Windows with Cygwin, etc.
It is a GUI program, requiring a running X server and the GTK+ library.

The latest Civworld distribution is based on the Freeciv source tree
as of June 9th, 2002.  This means its maps are compatible with
at least some Freeciv beta versions, 1.12.2, 1.12.4 and/or 1.12.6.


The file

   civworld-1.13.0.tar.bz2

contains the whole civworld source tree.  One it is made available,
fetch it, and

  bunzip2 -c civworld-1.13.0.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
  cd civworld-1.13.0
  ./configure --prefix=$HOME/civworld-1.13.0 --disable-cvs-deps --disable-nls
  make 
  mkdir $HOME/civworld-1.13.0
  make install

Try ./configure --help for alternative options.  Note that --with-xaw
doesn't work - you do need GTK+, version 1.x.


However, civworld-1.13.0.tar.bz2 is not yet available.
If you don't want to wait, fetch the patch file in this directory,

   civworld-1.13.0.diff-against-freeciv.bz2

and apply it against your 1.13.0 Freeciv source tree, as follows:

  # assuming the unpacked source tree is in a directory called freeciv/
  cd freeciv
  bunzip2 -c ../civworld-1.13.0.diff-against-freeciv.bz2 | patch -p1

You do not get a ./configure in this case;
run autogen.sh to create and run it, e.g.

  mkdir $HOME/civworld-1.13.0
  ./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/civworld-1.13.0 --disable-cvs-deps --disable-nls
  make 
  make install


If all went well, you can now start civworld:

  $HOME/civworld-1.13.0/bin/civworld &

Of course you can install it somewhere else if you want.

Enjoy!