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I've downloaded and installed the latest stable Windows package (2.1.3, Win/GTK) from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/freeciv/Freeciv-2.1.3-win32-gtk2-setup.exe?download

It installs successfully, but running FreeCiv results in an immediate crash (no output is displayed) saying "civclient.exe - Application Error The instruction at 0x6df1c003 referenced memory at 0x77c68000. The memory could not be read"

Running on a HP nc6400 laptop, Windows XP SP2.

Answering my own question: a missing directory ($HOME/.ggz) was preventing the system from starting. Found by looking at the stderr.txt file in the Freeciv directory.

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