[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Windows client

[Andreas Kemnade <akemnade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gregory Berkolaiko writes:
 > On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Christian Knoke wrote:
 > 
 > > > IMHO the windows client looks 2 levels worse than the GTK one. It has
 > > > the "charm" of the Xaw client. I think that the client really looks
 > > > like people expect open source software to look like. So while I think
 > > > that Andreas and the others have done a great job it is hard with this
 > > > client to attract people who never played freeciv to play freeciv. I
 > > > have made some screenshots and put them at
 > > > http://www.freeciv.org/~rfalke/.
 > 
 > >From screenshots it doesn't look that bad.
 > 
 > > Well, I really don't think it is that bad. Obviously there are a lot of
 > > small things that don't work as smooth as with Gtk/Linux. I'd say
 > > if there were three people like Andreas doing the work it will be
 > > probably very good.
 > 
 > We definitely have to put more resources into it.  What sort of software 
 > is used in this client?
 > 
See INSTALL for information how the win client is built.
 > > But I'm happy to be back on my Linux box, anyway :)
You can also test most parts of it with wine. It should work even
without having windows installed

Greetings
Andreas Kemnade