For Developers

How to build ZangbandTK, how its data files and source are laid out, and how to debug it. Start with Compiling Instructions; Modifying Angband is the orientation to the game’s data-driven design that makes the rest make sense.

• Modifying Angband
  • The data files
  • Making Graphical Tilesets
  • Larger changes
• Compiling Instructions
  • Linux / other UNIX with CMake
  • Linux / other UNIX with autotools
  • Windows native build
  • Cross-building for Windows with MinGW and CMake
  • Cross-building for Windows with MinGW and autotools
  • macOS
  • Nintendo DS / Nintendo 3DS
  • Cross-building for DOS with DJGPP
  • User Documentation
  • Developer Documentation
• CMake Hints
  • Configuring the Build
  • Performing the Build
  • Changing Configurations
  • End Products
• Debug Command Descriptions
  • Item Creation
  • Detection / Information
  • Teleportation
  • Character Improvement
  • Monsters
  • Dungeon
  • Miscellaneous
• How It Works
  • The Game
  • Data Structures
  • The Z Layer
  • Key Abstractions
  • Files
  • Control Flow
• Documentation on documentation
  • Conventions
  • Inline help parser syntax
  • Tricks
• Borg
  • Running The Borg
  • Borg Command Interface
  • Customizing The Borg
  • Borg Logging
  • Borg Screensaver