If you only want to browse the Robot Battle source code you can do so on the web. The instructions below are for downloading a copy of Robot Battle's source code to your computer. Everyone has read-only access to the source code. If you are a member of RBDEV you can get full read/write access to the code and start making changes.
Note: Robot Battle depends on a licensed sound library called Fmod. Fmod is not open source software. Lunkwill Labs has paid Firelight Technologies for a license that is valid only for Robot Battle. Lunkwill Labs has also obtained permission from Firelight Technologies to include the Fmod components in our source code repository to simplify the Robot Battle build process. This does not mean you can copy Fmod to other projects. Read the full Fmod license
Tools
- Install either the standard command-line subversion binaries or one of the GUI based clients
- To compile RB you need Microsoft Visual Studio .Net 2003 (VC7.1). Microsoft VC6 worked the last time I checked, but VC6 project files are no longer included with the source.
- If you have VC6 you also need the latest Microsoft Platform SDK. You then need to change VC to use these files before those that ship with VC. Do this by adding the include and lib directories of the platform SDK first under Tools | Options | Directories in VC.
Subversion Account
- To download the source code you do not need a special account
- To send change back to the subversion server your need an account. Only RBDEV members can get subversion accounts.
Getting the Code (with the command-line tools)
- Open a new command (DOS) window
- Change to the directory where you want to keep the code (like c:\rbdev)
- Type: svn checkout svn://dev.robotbattle.com/rbdev/win32/trunk
- After checkout you can delete these files at any time
- Read the project standards before making code changes
