[crossfire] gtk-v2 on MS Windows

[Nicolas Weeger]

Hello.

> It was really great : slightly faster and cooler than slow (on Windows) gtk
> 1 client.

Note that, if you're using the "official" Windows client, it is the GTK1 
client built with GTK2.

> I recently try to use again crossfire and was quite surprised that this
> client is still not on "officials ones", so I did try to compile actual svn
> sources and it didn't compile because a new use of "scandir" function that
> is not present in MinGW. I did wrote a little substitute for this with more
> standard unices functions that are present in MinGW (opendir / readdir
> ...). I did bracket this substitute with "#ifdef WIN32" but that should
> works on unix os without scandir in the same way.
>
> --> see that patch in attachment file.
>
> Now it do compile well and run but is it still a continued client ?

As Mark said, Windows support isn't always up to date and lacking.
I am (was?) the "official" Windows maintainer, and I've always built 
everything through MS's Visual Studio.
Building the GTK1 client is a real mess, a weird process where you rename 
randomly files, copy and change names, change functions, and weird things 
like that.
Therefore I didn't really want to try to build the GTK2 client. I also feel, 
maybe because I don't use it, that it isn't as advanced as the GTK1 client - 
from my point of view, GTK1 is still the official client ^_-


Thanks for the patch, and the remainder :)


As a note, I think patches are better on the Sourceforge tracker at 
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=13833&atid=313833 instead of buried 
in the forum (tracker makes it easier to follow things)


Nicolas
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