Confusing Installation

[Gargantus]

Im really confused on the installation the directions are unclear, such as when you get a list of different things to install. What do I install and were?


 lwjgl-1.0beta3.zip  Mirror  1947550 4889 Platform-Independent .zip
 lwjgl_applettest-1.0beta3.zip  Mirror  3936165 1162 Platform-Independent .zip
 lwjgl-docs-1.0beta3.zip  Mirror  1599528 1627 Platform-Independent .zip
 lwjgl_optional-1.0beta3.zip  Mirror

[Gargantus]

Im on windows

[Matzon]

lwjgl-1.0beta3.zip is the main file - unpack and test
the optional package contains fmod and devil bindings
the docs package is basically javadoc
and the applet test is a new package that tests applet support

[Gargantus]

ok thx

[Gargantus]

Another question. with the testing. how do you do that... I extracted the main .zip directly to the C: drive how would i type that out in CMD?

[aldacron]

Look in the doc subdirectory. There is a README file there with the instructions for you.

[Gargantus]

ya the new version beta 4. the readme isnt a text doc... it a file... prolly corupted but i cant open it...

[aldacron]

ya the new version beta 4. the readme isnt a text doc... it a file... prolly corupted but i cant open it...

Yes, it is a text document. It just doesn't have an extension. You can open it fine with any text editor, such as Notepad. Double-clicking it won't work, you actually have to open it via File-Open in your text editor. File extensions don't dictate the contents of a file.

[Gargantus]

ya ok... thats no dif then the one on the installation guide...  i have lwjgl-1.0 beta 4 installed directly to C:

[aldacron]

You asked how to type the command to run the tests on the command line. It's right there in the README. CD to C:\lwjgl-1.0beta4 and execute the java command as shown in the README. As long as either a JRE or JDK bin directory is on your PATH, you should be good to go. I don't know what else to tell you.