[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Imlib w/o X11 question (for CivWorld)

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 8 May 2003, Mike Kaufman wrote:

> On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 09:55:32AM +0000, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> > > Please help, there's a lot of people interested in making scenarios for
> > > FreeCIV on windows...
> >
> > Maybe civworld ought to be ported to gtk2 instead...
>
> gee, I wonder who should do that ;) On a serious note, I probably will do
> that as soon as I have a great deal of time and as soon as I figure out the
> abortion that is now GTK2 clists.

You mean GtkTreeView? Yes that is sort of braindead and slow. ;)

> as to the original question, I have no idea, however, there was someone who
> got civworld working on windows (whose name escapes me at the moment), so I
> know it's possible.

There used to be Imlib packages in TML's homepage but I guess he removed
them... He had IIRC to port Imlib to just use Gdk (ugh).
Rasterman used pure X11 in his version and wrapped Gdk around it. Blech.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa