[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Gl client probs

[Franck Guillaud <f.guillaud@xxxxxxx>]

           Hello,

     You could focus on the linux platform for now, using the gtk client
as a base. Try to write portable code and when all will be finshed, see
the state of the windows gtk port, and port your client. 

     If Windows is your primary target, you can go with SDL or glut and
port on unixes later. I've all the net client code packaged in two source
files if you wish, usefull to start a client from scratch.

        Anyway, choose a primary target first, with portability in mind, 
and port later ;-)

                         Franck.

PS1: My own OGL client as been ported to SDL. A perl interpreter is
embedded. Network seems functionnal. Now focusing on graphics.

PS2:My net code is grabbed from the gtk client and the common/ dir 
in the sources. Do you know if this is code portable accros
Win32, BeOS and Linux ?

On 10 Feb 2000, Rob wrote:

->Our group met today, and was having some problems with the client.  They are
->windows users, and have, understandably, been unable to get a client to work,
->let alone compile one, let alone compile one after adapting it to glut.  We've
->abandoned our earlier plan of using the gtk client and including parts of the
->gtk source, as the gtk source is very massive and would take forever to piece
->together.  Our current plan is to try out gtk for windows with the gtk client
->and try to make any adaptations nessisary, and then try to learn to use the
->glArea widget.. but... it still seems like this is going to be incredibly hard
->to adapt a client, for anything opengl, even in linux, let alone windows.  Any
->suggestions?
->
-> - Rob
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