[Freeciv-Dev] Re: compile on windows and possible bug with map size

[Raimar Falke <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 10:57:39AM +1000, Christian Stock wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to compile the cvs freeciv version for win (from yesterday) on 
> my home box (which doesn't have linux anymore, because I ran out of 
> diskspace and was using linux for work only).
> 
> The reason why I want to compile it is because the win cvs (and the 1.12.0 
> version) crashes on a custom made map. I basically doubled the large earth 
> map (so it's 320x180 now). I need that sort of detail and size for a 
> scenario I'm making. It seems to be too big, although in the code it looks 
> like maps can be as big as they want to be, so I suspect a bug in the win 
> client. So I wanted to fix it :)
> 
> I'm using MSVC 6.0, and I got really close compiling the server yesterday. 
> First off, since I'm using MSVC, I was stuck with the autogen.sh. Although 
> I have lot's of programming experience, I'm not very good when it come to 
> setting things up. I know that I need a config.h and I have worked out a 
> few things on what I need to define and what not, but I have a few 
> problems. Can someone maybe post a working config.h for a win system? And 
> where do I include it, ie where do I define HAVE_CONFIG_H? I defined the 
> win variables in the individual header files which is of course not ideal 
> at all, but it worked to get most stuff compiled for now...
> 
> my linking still has 2 problems. When I define NATIVE_WIN (which assume I 
> should), the code uses _beginthreadex, which is undefined. If I include the 
> libraries libcmt.lib or msvcrt.lib, I get conflicts, so what do i do?

I can't comment on the above.

> also, S_ISREG is undefined. It doesn't seem to be windows related, so how 
> do i fix that?

You mean you have a {f,l,}stat function and not the S_ISREG define? 
Odd.

Nevertheless if you know the windows way to identify a regular file
(== not (directory or symlink or char-device or block-device or pipe
or whatever)) please post a patch.

        Raimar

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