[Freeciv] Re: Freeciv & MS Windows

[Dan Sugalski <dan@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:45 PM 11/18/99 -0500, Todd Goodman wrote:
>> -----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)?

Packet radio. It's a clever doodad that ties into the digital cellphone
network and gets you a full-time (well, while you're in range) ethernet
connection. Gets about 56k/sec, but it *is* wireless... (I've almost worked
up the wherewithal to pick one up)

>> >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.

Might well be the difference. It'd explain the Palette messages.

>> 
>> >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 snagged it down and gave it a new name. Now I've got civclient_gtk and
civclient_xaw, with matching .bat files and icons. Excursion garbles the
city display for some reason too, though that might be cleared up in the
1.9.0 release.

>> 
>> >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.

Yep. Pity it doesn't work either. :(

                                        Dan

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