Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Windows and gtk+

[Sigurd Brattsti Sørensen <sigurdbs@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Martin Willemoes Hansen wrote:
> 
> > Hi Freecivers!
> > 
> > Has someone started making a nativ win32 version of Freeciv which uses
> > GTK+ and dont depend on an Xserver.
> 
> I actually tried porting the gtk+ client to win32 2 weeks ago.
> 
> I hacked the networking code in common.c to use winsock & all but the
> gtk+ part itself was crashing when creating the main window.
> 
> The gtk+ port to win32 isn't perfect yet, and the refreshes are slow and
> buggy.
> I made an offline MUD area editor that uses gtk+ that is intended from
> scratch to work on win32 and X.  What i learned from that is that stuff
> like using accelerators in menus and stuff can cause gtk+ win32 to crash.
> 
> Once we get 1.8.1 out i'll spend some more time trying to port the freeciv
> client + server to win32 using Microsoft Visual C+ 6.0.  (which is the
> compiler i have over here)
> 
> If anyone gets the client to work on win32 before that i would be grateful.

Btw:
What happened to the Java client project?
Is it stranded for good?

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