[Freeciv-Dev] RE: [Freeciv] Native Win32 port of Freeciv

["Todd Goodman" <tsg1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

As the person who put together the distribution for cygwin I can say that
I'd be happy with a native port.

However, I don't find cygwin to be too big or slow.  I run it all the time.
I also no longer consider it beta quality (I have more problems with native
NT).

The Starnet server (http://www.starnet.com) may be used for an X server.

I'm also looking into getting the freely distributable VNC server working.

As for changes needed to the code, perhaps Xemacs would provide a good
example
since it now supports both X and native MS-Windows windowing.  Andy Piper
has
been doing some work recently trying to align them even more than they are
currently.

Can you explain how GTK+ works natively?

Regards,

Todd

> -----Original Message-----
> From: freeciv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:freeciv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of hop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 3:36 PM
> To: freeciv@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Freeciv] Native Win32 port of Freeciv
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I'm interested in doing a native Win32 port of Freeciv and I
> just thought
> I'd float this idea out to all you freeciv developers and
> maintainers. My
> reasons for wanting this over the freeciv/cygwin work at
> http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Corner/2874/ are because
> cygwin is
> big, kindof slow, and still beta quality. Furthermore, the
> cygwin/freeciv
> stuff needs an X server to work, which will further slow it
> down. (Not to
> mention that you may need a commercial Xserver to get it working)
>
> So the real reason that I'm writing is because I'm wondering
> how you would
> react to this. Porting the client will require some
> uncomfortable changes
> to the code - either an abstraction layer implemented
> differently by two
> different sections of code (X11 and Win32 sections) or an
> entirely different
> distribution. Either way is fine with me, but if we go for
> the separate
> distribution thing, it'll be somewhat painful to move the
> Win32 client from
> version to version.
>
> Or, another option will be to use Gtk+ on win32 (which is
> still beta), but
> I'm not sure if this is the only non-portable section of the code.
> Specifically,
> I'm worried about the networking code on Win32.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Justin Hopkins
>
>
>
>
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