XCSoar README
=============

XCSoar is a tactical glide computer for the Pocket PC operating
system.

This file is aimed at developers.  Users should read the manual which
can be found on the XCSoar home page (http://www.xcsoar.org/).


Getting the source
------------------

The XCSoar source code is managed with git (http://git-scm.com/).  It
can be downloaded with the following command:

 git clone git://xcsoar.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/xcsoar/xcsoar

To update your repository, type:

 git pull

For more information, please refer to the git documentation.


Compiling from source
---------------------

To compile from source, you need:

- GNU make
- GNU compiler collection (gcc)
- rsvg (http://librsvg.sourceforge.net/)
- ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/)
- xsltproc (http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/xsltproc2.html)

To cross-compile to (desktop) Windows, you need the mingw32 version of
gcc:

 http://www.mingw.org/

For Pocket PC / Windows CE / Windows Mobile, you need mingw32ce:

 http://cegcc.sourceforge.net/
 http://sourceforge.net/projects/cegcc/files/cegcc/0.59.1/mingw32ce-0.59.1.tar.bz2/download

To compile, run:

 make TARGET=PC

Supported targets:

 PC: desktop Windows

 PPC2000, PPC2003: Pocket PC (for PPC2002 devices, use PPC2000 target)

 WM5: Windows Mobile 5.0 and later

 PPC2003X: Pocket PC 2003 with XScale CPU

 ALTAIR: Triadis Altair

 WINE: WineLib (experimental)

 UNIX: Linux and others (work in progress)

 ANDROID: Android OS (work in progress)


Submitting patches
------------------

Submit patches to the XCSoar developer mailing list
([email protected]).

- patches should be self-contained
- patches should be self-documenting (add a good description on what
  is changed, and why you are changing it)
- write one patch for one change