[Freeciv] Freeciv & MS Windows

[Dan Sugalski <dan@xxxxxxxxx>]

I saw the thread about using Freeciv under Win95/98/NT, so I decided to
give it a shot on the laptop here. (Beats Solitaire on the train ride home
at least) I now understand why folks are complaining about what's going on.
I couldn't get it to run under WinNT 4.0 SP5.

Trying the 1.8.1 pack from freeciv.org, with eXcursions as the X server, I
get:
vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
Your getpwuid call failed.  Please report this.gdk_imlib: Cannot Find
Palette. A Palette is required for this mode

Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwidget.c: line 4203 (gtk_widget_push_visual):
assertion `visual != NULL' failed.

Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwidget.c: line 4187 (gtk_widget_push_colormap):
assertion `cmap != NULL' failed.
    0       0 [main] C:\Program Files\freeciv\civclient.exe 1000
handle_exceptions: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
    0    8158 [main] civclient 1000 handle_exceptions: Dumping stack trace
to civclient.exe.core
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Obviously a no-go, and it doesn't matter whether I'm in single or
multi-window mode. Trying the client from
http://home.t-online.de/home/akemnade/civhome.html pops up a windows error
box claiming "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005)"

FWIW, Freeciv works just dandy when running on my linux box with the
display set to the laptop, so it's more than just eXcursion, at least in
the first case. 

                                        Dan

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