After porting some free software to an unfree operation system I've chosen to run some unfree software on a free operation system (ok, just wanted to play some kind of vikings godfather). An interesting target was "The Settlers 2: The Next Generation" or in german "Die Siedler 2: Die nächste Generation" v1.11757 because I found some positive comments inside wine's appdb and Ubisoft is selling it at a cheap price at the moment.

After we compiled and installed libg3d under windows/cygwin, the next step would be to port something which needs it. An "easy" target was s3d because I have write permissions to all repositories and can fix problems very fast.

Hurray. Holger Levsen found some time during his holidayQA meeting in Extremadura to check and sponsor s3d-0.2.1-6. It is currently in ftpmasters new queue. Big thx to him :)

Recently I have submitted some patches to libg3d's ml to fix some problems under cygwin. It is a little bit tricky to get a working libg3d installation but if all dependencies are fullfilled it is just the usual ./configure ... && make && make install procedure.

• Grab the nearest book.

• Open it to page 56.

• Find the fifth sentence.

• Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

• Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

• libg3d-0.0.6-4 in Lenny soon