Building Sidewinder
Source repository
The source code for Sidewinder is available from our subversion repository: http://sw.swcube.com/svn
History
Historically, as closed-source software, Sidewinder was developed using Visual Studio .NET 2002 (7.0) on Microsoft Windows. Since then, we have shifted to using Visual Studio .NET 2003 (7.1). We only have complete build instructions for these environments at the moment. However, we are obviously very keen to provide similarly thorough instructions for as many environments as possible. To this end, we strongly encourage anyone interested in Sidewinder to explore building it in the environment(s) of their choice. The VC7 and VC7.1 instructions and project files may be of value in this pursuit.
Other libraries
Although Sidewinder currently only builds successfully on Microsoft Windows, it has been developed with cross-platform issues in mind and, pending resolution of tickets #2 and #4, will be ready for porting to other platforms. A fundamental aspect of this cross-platform architecture involves relying upon certain best-of-breed Open Source libraries where they provide reliable, multi-platform implementations of required functionality. As such, any attempts to build Sidewinder on further platforms will require that these libraries are built first. They are:
Complete instructions
Please contribute more sets of complete instructions to the following list if you are able to do so.
