From e9b4e2d34af8f0ea4a54d8d093108cdfdc68757c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mtgmonkey <mtgmonkey@nixos>
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2025 19:22:42 +0100
Subject: Cabal; non-Nix support

---
 README.md | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

(limited to 'README.md')

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9c5c051..c3065c4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,21 +1,30 @@
-to run:
+see CHANGELOG.md
 
-```bash
-git clone https://git.mtgmonkey.net/Andromeda/hs-game
-cd hs-game
-nix run
-```
+to run without nix:
+- get build tools:
+    - with apt: `apt install cabal-install ghc git`
+- get source code: `git clone https://git.mtgmonkey.net/Andromeda/hs-game --depth 1; cd hs-game`
+- get dependencies
+    - with apt on x86-64: `apt install g++-x86-64_linux-gnu libgl-dev libx11-dev libxi-dev libxrandr-dev libxxf86vm-dev libxcursor-dev libxinerama-dev libglu1-mesa-dev`
+- run with `cabal run` or build with `cabal build`
 
-to release:
-
-```bash
-nix build .#release
-```
+to run with nix:
+`nix run git+https://git.mtgmonkey.net/Andromeda/hs-game`
 
-to debug build:
+to enter nix development shell:
+`nix develop git+https://git.mtgmonkey.net/Andromeda/hs-game`
 
-```bash
-nix build .#debug
-```
+build tested on
+- nix
+- Kubuntu 25.10
 
-todo moved to CHANGELOG.md
+to release:
+- update CHANGELOG.md with new version
+- update version in hs-game.cabal
+- update version in flake.nix
+- check that it builds
+- `git add -A`
+- `git status` make sure there aren't random files
+- `git status -v` make sure all additions are in CHANGELOG.md
+- double check that flake, .cabal, and CHANGELOG.md all have the same version
+- release
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