Windows XP getting started

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Low level guide to setting up a Windows XP development environment for easy entry.

Contents 1 Download 2 Step 1 3 Step 2 4 Step 3 5 Step 4 6 Finally 7 Troubleshooting

Download

Download all the stuff you need.

• Ant from ant.apache.org
• NetBeans JDK combo from java.sun.com or netbeans.org
• Game Gardens toolkit files

Step 1

• Create a development directory such as c:\devel
• Extract Game Gardens zip into the development directory c:\devel\games
• Extract Ant into the development directory c:\devel\ant

Step 2

• Install the JDK
• Install NetBeans if you use that IDE

Step 3

• Right click on My Computer and choose Properties.
• Click on the Advanced tab.
• At the bottom of the window click the Environment Variables button.
  • In the section called System Variables, click New.
    • In the name field enter ANT_HOME
    • In the value field enter c:\devel\ant. Click OK.
  • In the section called System Variables, click New again.
    • In the name field enter JAVA_HOME
    • In the values field enter c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_02 (the location of you JDK installation). Click OK.
  • In the section called System Variables find the Path variable and click Edit.
    • In the value field add ;c:\devel\ant\bin to the end of the existing value. Click OK.
  • Click OK at the bottom of the Environment Variables window.
• Click OK at the bottom of the System Properties window.

Step 4

• Reboot (may or may not be necessary)

Finally

Give it a test run, open up a command prompt (start->Run->cmd) Then do these steps:

cd c:\devel\games\atlantis
ant dist
ant server

Next open up another command prompt and do this:

cd c:\devel\games\atlantis
ant -Dusername=Test client

You should now be in the lobby of an atlantis game, congratulations!

Troubleshooting

• The default Java home may be pointing to the JRE not the JDK (This causes an error which says ant can't find the tools.jar file)
• If you get a invalid command when doing ant dist, make sure your HOME variables don't end in a \ (backslash). If you type ant and it returns the java runtime help text, then that is probably the issue.