On 2015-01-20 8:17 PM, Michael Petch wrote: > Howdy all, > > I have completed the migration of the build environment for MS Windows > to a more modern MSYS2/MinGW32 environment. Originally I was using a > hacked environment based on MSYS/MinGW32 .
Some bad news. It seems that the developers of GLIB(and or GTK) have forsaken Windows XP at the moment. You should be able to install it on XP but the GUI version will exit with an error regarding IPHLPAPI.DLL and a missing entry point. The CLI versions seems to be unaffected. Something similar happened on Win98/ME/SE and GTK2. It is still possible to build for XP with the old developer environment as I have been but we'll be using older components(libraries/DLLs) and there will be no random.org support. More about the issue can be found here: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.cross-env/3733 and here https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/mingw-cross-env-list/2014-12/msg00011.html I am contemplating (unless GTK2/GLIB/MSYS2-Mingw put out an a fix) building two versions of GNUbg 1.05 (one that supports XP+ and the other Vista/Server 2008+). 1.05.000 would be the last official release with a version that supports XP. All versions above 1.05.000 would require newer versions of Windows (Server 2008/Vista and above) unless of course a fix comes about that allows the new development environment to target XP and above. If someone really wanted a particular build of a future GNUbg (minus some features that may not be available like www.random.org etc) I could do such builds on request. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304 _______________________________________________ Bug-gnubg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg
