	abridge - Online bridge game

aBridge is a cross-platform online bridge game.  Currently it is only
available for linux (or other unix) and microsoft windows.  At the moment,
it is in a sort of alpha state, meaning that you can play bridge using it,
but it is missing a lot of features that are reasonably important, and has
many remaining bugs.

COMPILING UNDER LINUX

To compile aBridge, you will need to have wxWindows installed, either
version 2.2.9 or later.  In linux, you should be able to compile with a
simple ./configure && make, and then install with make install.  If you
have problems compiling aBridge, please let me know.

If you want to enable speech synthesis (so you can hear people's bids, for
example), you will need to have festival and a few other libraries
installed.  Also, currently speech sythesis is (in my experience anyways)
incompatible with artsd and esd, which probably will cause problems when
running under gnome or kde.  Note: if you want to set up your own server,
the 'dealer' program MUST be compiled without speech sythesis, or it WILL
segfault.

COMPILING UNDER WINDOWS

I do not know how to compile aBridge under windows.  The windows version is
cross-compiled using linux (since I don't have windows).  Probably it isn't
too hard to get it compiled under windows, if you know how to compile other
wxWindows programs, and if you succeed at this, please let me know, so I
can include your makefile (or project or whatever) in the standard
distribution.

Comments are welcome.  Bugreports are welcome (at
abridge-devel@lists.sourceforge.net). 

	- David Roundy <droundy@abridgegame.org>

  Copyright (C) 2001,2002 David Roundy

  abridge is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  (at your option) any later version.

  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
