[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#7094) gtk2/win32 client under win98

["Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7094 >

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Jason Short wrote:
> > Any chance the for the GTK version to work on Win98SE? I have seen
> > GTK2 apps running on this system, and can't eventry out Freeciv
> > because the installer won't let me :(
>
> I know nothing about it. Per made the GTK2/Win32 build, but I'm pretty
> sure he disabled the check for Win98. I know I installed it on my Win98
> system to test (and it didn't work).

Yes, the latest version has the install check disabled. I do not know why,
but I have good reason to believe that it won't work on win9x versions. I
suspect it has something to do with missing system calls.

  - Per