[Freeciv] Re: Freeciv & MS Windows

["Todd Goodman" <tsg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Sugalski [mailto:dan@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 6:17 AM
> To: Todd Goodman; freeciv@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Freeciv] Re: Freeciv & MS Windows
> 
> 
> At 10:43 PM 11/17/99 -0500, Todd Goodman wrote:
> >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.
> 
> Took me by surprise, that's for sure. Pity X is too 
> heavyweight to run over
> one of the PCMCIA packet ethernet cards...

You don't get good performance out of your PCMCIA ethernet card (or
do you mean packet radio)?

> 
> >What depth are you running the server at?
> 
> 8bit pseudo-color. Alas the only option eXcursion has. 
> (Otherwise I'd be in
> 24-bit mode)

OK.  I'm running 24-bit.

> 
> >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.
> 
> Nope, didn't realize it existed. I'll snag it and try. If it 
> works, maybe
> it'd be worth packaging in with the install kit.

My packaging tool won't let me package files with the same name.
I suppose I should add it with a different name and people can
copy to the right name.

> 
> >I certainly agree that the Windows build could be better and 
> intend to
> >continue work on it as soon as I can.
> 
> Cool. This is probably ultimately a windows Gtk issue, since 
> that's what's
> throwing the error, and Freeciv under Linux likes this config 
> just fine. If
> you do get a chance to mess with it, drop me a line and, if I 
> still have
> this particular box (it's a loaner machine) I'd be happy to 
> give it a whirl.

Yeah, it could be my GTK build.  The checks in the GTK build
check OK, but...

I'll let you know if I can get going.  You already found the
native windows/non-cygwin build by Andreas.

Thanks,

Todd

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