= MaNGOS -- README =

Copyright (c) 2005-2007 MaNGOS <http://www.mangosproject.org/>

  MaNGOS 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

Comments are welcome.

	- theluda <theluda@googlemail.com>

== Welcome to MaNGOS ==

MaNGOS (the Massive Network Game Object Server) is an Open Source reference
implementation for a MMORPG server system. Please see the file COPYING for
license details.

For further information on the MaNGOS project, please visit our project web
site at <http://www.mangosproject.org/>

Documenation on various development related topics can be found in the doc/
subdirectory, including Doxygen-generated API documentation.

The required SQL files for creating the database backend are included in the
sql/ subdirectory.

In order to build and install MaNGOS under Linux, follow the instructions
described in the INSTALL file. To build MaNGOS on Windows, please see the
win/ subdirectory. Project workspaces for Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Visual
Studio .NET 2005 are available.

In case you have checked out MaNGOS from the SubVersion repository, please run
./reconf prior to building, as you may otherwise not be able to run a build.