Gtk minefield

We've been bitten by a number of Gtk bugs over the years. These particularly affect our Windows packages, where we have a limited set of prebuilt versions of Gtk to choose from, and often have to choose which bug we ship with.

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.)

(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
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
2.18.0	Yes	-	-	OK
2.18.9	Yes	-	-	OK
2.20.1	Yes	0.6.4	-	Broken
2.22.1	Yes	0.6.5	2.3.0-RC2 - 2.3.0	Broken			OK
2.24.4	No	(0.6.5.103)	-	Broken
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?
2.24.10	Yes	0.8	2.3.5 2.4.0-beta2- 2.5.0-beta1-	OK	OK	OK?	Broken
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
2.24.20	No	0.12-	-	OK			Expect OK	OK
2.24.21	No	-	-					Broken
2.24.22	No	-	-					Broken
2.24.24	No	-	-					Broken

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
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	2.4.1-2.4.3 (2.5.0-beta0 test) 2.5.0-beta1	Broken	OK 668239 fixed
3.8.0	Minimum version that Freeciv 2.6+ source compiles against
3.8.2	kinda?	-	(2.5.0-beta0 test)	OK	OK
3.10.4	kinda?	-	(2.5.0-beta0 test)	OK	OK