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We've been bitten by a number of Gtk bugs over the years. These particularly affect our Windows packages, where we have traditionally had a limited set of prebuilt versions of Gtk to choose from, and had to choose which bug we ship with. (These days we've given up on the official releases, and build our own Gtk.)

These tables cover the versions of Gtk itself, since that's what we seem to have trouble with, rather than its dependencies like Glib. (Newer versions of Glib tend to drop compatibility with obsolete versions of Windows; this isn't covered here.)

In addition to the upstream trouble, we make life more difficult for ourselves by building Gtk2 and Gtk3 packages in a single "gnuwin" environment (ref); they share some dependencies (e.g. Glib); and in our experience, a given version of Gtk2/3 may not work with a given version of Glib (etc), and later versions of Glib are not always better in this regard. Usually we pick the extra libraries that come with Gtk3; so we may have to pick a pair of Gtk2/3 versions that are compatible in this regard. (If we ever find we can't, we can always prepare two separate environments.) The details of this are not covered here either.

(Darker colours are for observations we have made with Freeciv, lighter colours are unproven speculations about fixed versions / root causes.)

Please don't edit this table if you're not a Freeciv developer; if you have any further relevant observations please leave them in the relevant bugs in the bug tracker, or on the talk page here if they don't fit elsewhere.

Gtk2[]

Version Win32? Crosser Freeciv Bugs
Worklist drag
GNA#18517
Black map / hang
GNA#18243
get_handle crash
GNA#21272
CJK trouble
GNA#21038
Text background
GNA#21475
Crash with new Gtk3
GNA#23022
2.12.0 Minimum version that Freeciv 2.4-2.6+ source compiles against
2.16.0 Yes - ? - 2.1.9
2.16.5 Yes - 2.2.0-RC1 - 2.2.7
2.3.0-beta3 - 2.3.0-RC1
OK
2.16.6 Yes - 2.2.0-beta1 - 2.2.0-beta3
2.3.1-2.3.4
(2.3.5 test)
2.4.0-beta1
OK Broken OK OK
2.18.0 Yes - - OK OK
2.18.9 Yes - - OK OK
2.20.1 Yes 0.6.4 - Broken OK
2.22.1 Yes 0.6.5 2.3.0-RC2 - 2.3.0 Broken OK OK
2.24.4 No (0.6.5.103) - Broken OK
2.24.5 No - - Broken
652872 unfixed
2.24.6 No - - OK
652872 fixed
658841 unfixed?
2.24.7 No - - 658841 fixed?
2.24.8 Yes 0.7 - OK OK? OK
2.24.10 Yes 0.8 2.3.5
2.4.0-beta2 - 2.4.3
2.5.0-beta1
OK OK OK? Broken OK
2.24.13 No 0.9 - 668239 unfixed
2.24.14 No 0.10.1 - 668239 fixed
2.24.19 No 0.11.1 - OK OK
2.24.20 No 0.12-0.14 (2.4.3 test, older)
2.4.4-
2.5.0-beta2 -
OK OK OK
695636 unfixed
Broken
2.24.21 No - - Broken
695636 fixed
2.24.22 No - - Broken
2.24.24 No - - Broken
2.24.25 No - - Broken
741060 unfixed
2.24.26 No - 741060 fixed Broken
2.24.27 No 0.15 -
2.24.28 No -

Gtk3[]

We haven't officially launched Gtk3 Windows clients at the time of writing, due to major usability issues. Unadorned Freeciv versions refer to test builds made by cproc.

Version Win32? Crosser Freeciv Bugs
Black popups
GNA#20999
CJK trouble
GNA#21038
Makes Gtk2 crashy
GNA#23022
3.4.0 Minimum version that Freeciv 2.4-2.5 source compiles against
3.4.2 Yes - (2.5.0-beta0 test)
3.6.3 No - - 668239 unfixed
3.6.4 Yes 0.10.1-0.11.1 2.4.1-
(2.5.0-beta0 test)
2.5.0-beta1
Broken OK
668239 fixed
OK
3.8.0 Minimum version that Freeciv 2.6+ source compiles against
3.8.2 kinda? - (2.5.0-beta0 test)
2.5.0-RC1 -
OK OK OK
3.10.4 kinda? - (2.5.0-beta0 test)
2.5.0-beta2
OK OK Broken
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