Re: New Pingus Win32 binary

[Kenneth Gangstoe]

Quoting David Philippi (address@hidden):
> Finally I've managed to compile a working binary for Pingus on Win32.
> 
> Special thanks to Neil Mitchell and Kenneth Gangstoe who made this possible.
> 
> Right now it's very unstable. You get the start screen most of the time but 
> it 
> may happen that it crashes once you click on start. Just try again and it's 
> entirely possible that it'll work.
> Using the link that starts Pingus with sound and music isn't recommended in 
> case you've got other apps running. I did hear sound and music from Pingus 
> but I did also see some heavy crashes YMMV.
> Once the upload is complete  it'll be available as:
> 
> http://seul.org/~torangan/pingus.zip
> 
> The main problem that needs to be solved is that Pingus creates a new window 
> for it's output so it's impossible to see the log once it crashed, even if 
> you start it from a dos shell. :-(

That is probably the ClanLib Console window. If you want output to a DOS
window, you must remove the call to this, as it routes standard output.
An alternative would be to log to a file instead.

- Kenneth