Re: [Freeciv-Dev] FreeCiv @ windoze

[Nick Lamb <njl98r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 05, Todd Goodman decided to present us with:
> Yes, I build for Cygwin from CVS with no problem (aside from my
> mistakes with CVS).
> I'm using a commercial X server though.  :-(
> 

On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Lalo Martins wrote:
> I'd hope, once compiled the thing runs in any server, no?
> 
> Then it would only be a matter of providing (together with the
> binaries) a compiled libxpm*.dll and pointing to XF86 binaries
> (or whatever free X server there is). Isn't there a package of
> Win32 XF86 binaries somewhere?

Presumably the server doesn't require an X Server, so the only part of
Freeciv which needs X is the client, via the dependency on Athena.
Since there has been very considerable progress in making GTK+ work with
and without X on the Win32 platform, it seems likely that a later
version of Freeciv will work "out-of-box", with a pretty GTK+ client.

Hooray! Multi-platform multi-player Civ. This should be bigger than Quake

Nick.