Talk:Install-Windows

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[edit] Compiling

I followed the instructions currently given (for MinGW). Maybe they'll work, we'll see. Anyway, the CVS instructions aren't complete I think. After I got into msys I use 'cvs' to checkout the sources. But this is the cvs that comes with msys right? How do I use tortoisecvs? jdorje 08:46, 12 May 2005 (PDT)

And what about the GTK2 client? To compile this means installing GTK as well right? Where do I get that? jdorje 09:03, 12 May 2005 (PDT)

See http://forum.freeciv.org/viewtopic.php?t=336 for instructions for compiling the gtk client in windows. r0b0

[edit] MinGW 5

I had a run through the instructions and found a number of components were updated or had changed in some way. For the life of me I couldn't get some of the modules such as iconv and gettext to build properly so I have provided links to prebuilt versions from gimp. The instructions as they currently stand document my step by step process to configure MinGW and addons and successfully build freeciv.

It still doesn't quite work but I'll keep tweaking and expanding it until it does. Placid 15:25, 27 Oct 2005 (PDT)

Those versions didn't work for me. Unles I disable them with --disable-nls, I didn't get anything. The old versions aren't perfect neither，but at least the "quit" buton from the main menue (GTK2) got localised. May be a path issue; I have to look deeper into that. --Ollinaie 04:31, 12 Feb 2006 (PST)

There is apparently a problem with the way internationalization is done (see a feeciv-dev thread on this subject starting here). I am currently working on a rewrite of the wiki page that gives a known workaround, and some explanation of the situation. While the workaround isn't a permanent fix, it's reliable until the actual code is changed. --Jkeller 00:35, 22 Feb 2006 (CEST)

[edit] Broken link to binary packages

The pre-compiled packages (version 2.0.6 and 2.0.7) for windows don't exist on the ftp server.

• Does the link have to be change to sourceforge.net/Freeciv-2.0.7-win32-gtk2-setup.exe... ?
  
• Does the ftp server need to be updated with the up-to-date packages ?

Guillaume 22 fevrier 2006, 23h51

I'm currently working on an update that will give current links to the latest Windows installers, as well as the Freeciv files page on sf.net. --Jkeller 00:38, 22 Feb 2006 (CEST)