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Author      Jrg 'MK2k' Sonntag / www.mk2k.net
Name        Kakuro Nichiyou
Version     1.0.1
Platform    Win32
Dev-Details Developed in C++ using the Qt Application Framework 4.4.3 by Nokia
Puzzle Data Credits go to Otto Janko / www.janko.at for his permission to use
            and distribute his Kakuro Puzzles in Kakuro Nichiyou and thanks to
            his collection of other people's free Kakuro Puzzles
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Kakuro Nichiyou Win32 is a game where you can play different Kakuro Puzzles. 

In order to learn how to play Kakuro puzzles and use the software, you can
read the in-game help, launch help.html from this directory in your webbrowser
or read on the project's website http://kakuro.mk2k.net

The binary has been compiled under Windows XP using the Qt 4.4.3 static library
and the MinGW compiler.

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I    Features
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* Kakuro Nichiyou features 254 hand-picked/created Puzzles from Puzzlemakers all
  over the world. Permission granted by Otto Janko, a great Puzzle collector
  visit his website: www.janko.at
* Play Kakuros by setting numbers in the free fields, you can even make "notes"
  in each field (small numbers from 1..9)
* In Kakuro Nichiyou you can save your current progress and load it later
* Kakuro Nichiyou features a solver which is work in progress and most likely
  the fastest around today
* Create your own Kakuros with the built-in Editor. Kakuro Nichiyou keeps track
  of the sum clues while you enter values into free fields.
* A Solver Analysis function makes Kakuro Nichiyou a tool for researching AI

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II   Controls
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Read the in-game help or on the project's website how to use the software.

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III  How to Compile
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The easiest way under windows to compile the sources is to get the latest
QtCreator from the Trolltech Website:
http://trolltech.com/developer/qt-creator/qt-creator#download-qt-creator

Install it, run it and open :
  Kakuro_Nichiyou_Win32\Source\Kakuro_Nichiyou_PC\Kakuro_Nichiyou.pro

A little bit more advanced is to statically link the Qt4 libraries and get rid
of mingwm10.dll:
* get Qt4 opensource pack from:
  http://trolltech.com/downloads/opensource/appdev/windows-cpp
* unpack the zip file and make sure at least 10GB of hard disk space is 
  available
* edit mkspecs\default\qmake.conf and mkspecs\win32-g++\qmake.conf
  remove any occurence of "-mthreads" from them
* type "configure -static"
  wait until it finished
* type "gmake"
  You can savely press Ctrl.+C to break the make process when you see that
  the examples are being compiled (we don't need them here and they eat up
  a lot of harddisk space)
* point QtCreator to the new qt directory

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IV   Greets and Shouts
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Otto Janko / www.janko.at
Dargo / www.mupfelofen.de
Spacey / www.bytegeiz.de
Zerlh / www.hostco.de
oranda / http://www.indiegames.com/blog/

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V    EOF - Visit www.mk2k.net
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