[Freeciv] Re: Freeciv & MS Windows

["Todd Goodman" <tsg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow.  That's a new error that I've seen.  I run on Windows NT 4.0 SP4
(I'll be running on SP5 soon) and on Windows98 and haven't had those
problems.  I'm running eXceed.

What depth are you running the server at?

Did you try the XAW client?  It's available as a separate civclient.exe
from the same place as the install set.  Just save the GTK civclient.exe
and copy in the XAW version.

I certainly agree that the Windows build could be better and intend to
continue work on it as soon as I can.

Todd

> -----Original Message-----
> From: freeciv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:freeciv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Dan Sugalski
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 9:57 AM
> To: freeciv@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Freeciv] Freeciv & MS Windows
> 
> 
> 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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>