[Adonthell-devel] First 0.3 Windows binaries

[Alexandre Courbot]

Allright, let's be a bit more serious now. Here are some details about
the changes needed to get the Windows binaries to work.

First, I haven't used to configure system (which produced too many
trash) to compile this binary. Instead I worked in a separate directory
with a manually written Makefile. I'll spend the next days to fix the
building system so it supports mingw32 as well.

The binary doesn't have nls support, because of (not serious) linking
problems. This should be fixed soon though. It has full sound support
however, and should run exactly the same way as under Linux.

I had to make some changes however in order for the Python scripts to
work:
we had the habit of using schedules/dialogs/events names of the form
"schedules/mapcharacters/talan", which Windows didn't like at all. Even
replacing the '/' with '\' didn't fix, and reading the doc I learnt is
wasn't exactly the way to do. So I switched our scripts directories into
a Python package structure, which allows us to use
"schedules.mapcharacters.talan" instead, on both systems. In practise, I
just had to add an empty __init__.py file in each directory that is a
package. See the Python tutorial for more details. Because of this, I
had to move the "events" directory into "game_events" because we also
have an "event" module, which was ambiguous with it.

So I've changed the C++ source files to work with it, as well as Python
scripts that need to change schedules. Note that some dialogues have
been changed: demo_intro_1, jelom_start and extro.

Also, it looked like the extro didn't work anymore. Actually it appeared
that the credits were not well displayed, because the gettext markers
were

_(("text", 1))

instead of

(_("text"), 1)

so I've fixed this as well. I'venoticed that we use two kinds of
markers, _N and _, is it normal Kai?

Ah, also, the character portraits doesn't change dynamically like
before, in dialogs like Erek ones. I guess this is a bug with the new
dialog system.

Ah, something else: weren't the Savannah guys supposed to move waste's
edge CVS to Savannah?

I guess that's about all. I just hope it will work as fine for you. Have
fun! :)
Alex.
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