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To: xander <xwiggen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: win32 /port
From: "Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 14:46:36 +0000 (GMT) 
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, xander wrote:
> I use the WIN32 port that plainly sucks in comparison with GTK version for
> UN*X. I'd like to help improving a client for Windoze in native gui --
> though probably this cannot be done as GPL prohibits using windows libs???

The GPL does not prohibit dynamically linking with system libraries. So
any library that comes with windows is fair game. Anything else is not.

Anyway, why not
 1) make a port of the GTK2 client to Windows (gtk2's win32 support is
fairly good nowadays)
 or 2) port the SDL client to Windows
instead?

  - Per
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