ALL PLATFORMS:

Please understand your rights and mine: read the text file LICENSE in the root

of the source tree. If you can't abide by it, delete this source tree now.

The best documentation for the PhysicsFS API is physfs.h. It is VERY heavily

commented, and makes an excellent, in-depth reference to all the functions.

UNIX:

for general purposes, but give it a once over to make sure. If you don't have

zLib on your system, you'll need to disable ZIP support.

run "make"

That's it. The library will be sitting in a new directory called "bin".

WIN32:

unpack in the root of the source directory, preserving directory names. If

you did it correctly, there should be a directory named "zlib114" in the

same directory as "physfs.h". This archive has Visual C project files and

the code needed for zipfile support in PhysicsFS, since most Windows boxes

don't have zlib preinstalled.

IMPORTANT: If you are using anything older than Visual Studio.NET, you

will _NEED_ to upgrade to the latest Platform SDK from Microsoft. It is a

free download: http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/

Be sure to install _at least_ the Core SDK and the WMI SDK. I'm not sure if

this is needed (or usable for Cygwin). Even though you need these SDK updates,

the compiled PhysicsFS DLL should work on any win32 platform from Win95 and

WinNT 4.0 and later.

No one's tried building this for a WinCE (PocketPC) platform, but it may or

may not work. Patches are welcome.

(Which used to work, see caveat about Platform SDK above). If you're using

Visual C, point the IDE at physfs.dsp, and build. If you're using any other

compiler, send me a patch when you get it working. :)

If someone is willing to maintain prebuilt PhysicsFS DLLs, I'd like to hear

from you; send an email to icculus@clutteredmind.org.

MACOS 8/9:

Download http://icculus.org/physfs/downloads/mac_classic_support.sit and

unpack it in the root of the physfs folder. It should produce a folder

called "Mac Classic Support" that has CodeWarrior 6 project files and a

copy of zlib for zipfile support.

If someone is willing to maintain prebuilt PhysicsFS Shared Libraries for

the Mac, I'd like to hear from you; send an email to icculus@clutteredmind.org.

OTHER PLATFORMS:

Many platforms might "just work" with the Unix Makefile (such as BeOS and

MacOS X), but have not been heavily tested, if tested at all. To implement a

new platform or archiver, please read the heavily-commented physfs_internal.h

and look in the platform/ and archiver/ directories for examples.

--ryan. (icculus@clutteredmind.org)