[Freeciv-Dev] Re: win32 server

[Andreas Kemnade <akemnade@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Reinier Post writes:
 > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:13:29PM +0000, Gaute B Strokkenes wrote:
 > 
 > > I don't know.  You seem to regard your mini-gettext as an
 > > embarrassment that should be hidden in a special directory lest anyone
 > > catch sight of it.  I don't quite agree; I think that if it works for
 > > the Amiga, it ought to work for Windows as well.
 > > 
 > > Basically, we have the choice between maintaining a set of patches to
 > > the original gettext, patches that will have to be changed every time
 > > gettext changes.  Or we can use your mini-fork, which we will have to
 > > update/extend every time the interfact changes.  I know which one I
 > > think is simpler.
 > 
 > Do not ignore the fact that we are already distributing a gettext version
 > with Freeciv.  It is different from Solaris gettext, for instance (and
 > compiling with Solaris gettext didn't work, last time I tried,
 > ./configure --with-included-gettext was required.)  So we're already
 > dragging our own version around - so why not patch it?
To summarize what is to patch:
- masking the getuid, geteuid, getgid calls for building windows
versions
- using some kind of file i/o that supports binary files on all
  platforms (open needs O_BINARY on windows to do this)
- bindtextdomain
 > 
 > > I think it would be easier, and not very harmful, to just stick it in
 > > a file in common and bracket the code with #if defined (AMIGA) ||
 > > defined (WIN32_NATIVE) .  Keep it simple, you know.
 > 
 > Ths is a proposal to *violate* the autoconf principle.
 > Which isn't necessary.  You can define a 'feature' variable instead,
 > PATCHED_BINDTEXTDOMAIN or something like that, and make autoconf set or
 > clear it on those platforms that use it.
 > 
 > > The only function
 > > within that should require any changes would be bindtextdomain().
If we use gnu gettext, this is not the only change, see above

Greetings
Andreas Kemnade