[crossfire] Trouble building Windows client

[Kevin Zheng]

On 1/6/20 3:40 PM, Nathaniel Kipps wrote:
> I find it most interesting that the issue only manifests once I remove
> the binaries from the build environment, and execute them elsewhere.
> This indicates to me that I'm missing something simple, and that it's
> not just a regular bug.

That is an interesting observation that I didn't realize before.

>> try re-building with debugging symbols
> 
> Some quick googling shows that this may be as simple as setting
> "CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE" to equal "Debug". Shouldn't be to hard to try.

That should be right.

>> getting a backtrace from the crash
> 
> Since the client doesn't actually crash, just behaves anomalously, is
> there an alternate way to get a backtrace? Perhaps some function in
> windbg that may help?

This, I don't know. What compiler did you use? If you used MinGW's gcc,
then gdb should be available as well.

Regards,
Kevin

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