[Freeciv-Dev] Re: win32 port of Freeciv

[Martin Willemoes Hansen <mwh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have no problems with it. Testing is mainly done with wine on
> linux. I have also tested it on win95 and on win2k at a friend's.
> Some pixmaps are perhaps not shown correctly like the intro gfx.
> One thing I know is that units in the unit_pixmap are not shown
> correctly.
> I18n is not yet working.

Okay sound good.

>  > Any special quirks which should go into the main freeciv tree. Is it me
>  > or have I not seen your work on the mailinglist?
>  >
> The diff is quite big (50k uncompressed) but it should not break
> anything. Of course, it could go into the main freeciv tree but there
> are other people who want to normalize the network interface, too. I
> think I have to coordinate with them. I have defined functions like
> my_readsocket,my_closesocket, etc.

You should send your diff to freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx Along with all the
other messages you want to share with the rest of the freeciv gang :)
You see im only the web/ftpmaster of freeciv.org.

> The diff is at
> http://home.t-online.de/home/akemnade/freeciv-1.11.0-win.diff.gz.
> It is nice to have my port on www.freeciv.org, so everybody can
> download it directly.

No problem. I guess a lot of people allready has.

> But nobody would be able to find the source!

You will be added to the projects page too.

> I will make a new archive soon with a README.win32.txt, which mentions
> where you can get the patch and where you can get the gtk/gdk
> sources and other things that I have mentioned on my freeciv page. I will wait
> a few days to see if there are still
k

> bugs. Perhaps I can make i18n working.
> Should I upload the new file to ftp.freeciv.org/freeciv/incoming and
> mail you again?

That would be nice :), please read the README files in that dir too.

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