[Freeciv-Dev] Re: win32 server

[Andreas Kemnade <akemnade@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dirk Stoecker writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > this is a bit of message compilation due to my reply-to errors :-)
 > 
 > >>> For windows we have only the few calls in init_nls we need to do
 > >>> it. We would have a lot of code twice if we had a special
 > >>> gettext.c for windows.
 > 
 > >> The point is that the special code is already there. The only
 > >> thing you have to do is move it to the common directory and add
 > >> appropriate #ifdef and configure magic to make sure there is no
 > >> stomping of toes.
 > 
 > > Common is not the right directory anyway. Either leaving it in amiga
 > > with some additional ifdefs or moving it to a new drawer "misc". I
 > > would not like to have such rudimentary replacements in the main
 > > directories.
 > 
 > [example if ifdef source send by Andreas ...]
 > 
 > > What's the way to proceed? Should I cut the intl stuff from that
 > > patch and resend it again? I18n is nice but the server will work
 > > without it. 
 > > 
 > > I don't know how to do the autoconf stuff which is needed to integrate
 > > gettext.c into the win32 build. Can you help, please? I define
 > > WIN32_NATIVE in configure.in/acconfig.h when a mingw32 system is detected.
 > 
 > I don't know much about autoconf, so maybe others can help here. For the
 > first step I would say leave the "patched" code in amiga directory
 > instead of resubmitting in win directory. Whenever the i18n interface
I don't mean resubmitting the intl stuff. I mean resubmitting the
other stuff (like autoconf/networking changes).
 So you can see what autoconf stuff is already done. 

Greetings
Andreas Kemnade

BTW: What platforms need the intl dir? Some commercial unixes?