An alternative for the multi-window interface?

[backwardsEric]

Originally Posted by smbhax

Duly noted, thanks! = ) Updated "make" to "make install" in my notes, and if I ever need to try compiling the Windows version again I'll hunt down how to sync back to that older version of mingw.

Which version of Windows and mingw did you use when you got the procedure entry point could not be found message? The system for building Angband's Windows releases has to change in the near future so I'm trying to determine if the version of mingw (8.0.0-1) in Ubuntu 22.04 will avoid that problem.

[smbhax]

Originally Posted by backwardsEric

Which version of Windows and mingw did you use when you got the procedure entry point could not be found message? The system for building Angband's Windows releases has to change in the near future so I'm trying to determine if the version of mingw (8.0.0-1) in Ubuntu 22.04 will avoid that problem.

Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Version 10.0.22000 Build 22000

Not sure if this is the right package to check but apt list reports

gcc-mingw-w64-base/focal,now 9.3.0-7ubuntu1+22~exp1ubuntu4 amd64 [installed,automatic]

"sudo apt-get install gcc-mingw-w64-base" resulted in "gcc-mingw-w64-base is already the newest version (9.3.0-7ubuntu1+22~exp1ubuntu4)."

[Bill Peterson]

Originally Posted by backwardsEric

The system for building Angband's Windows releases has to change in the near future.

Could you say a few words about this? The last time I compiled Angband was on Linux, but I suppose I should get up to speed if I want to get involved with the Sil rewrite

[backwardsEric]

Originally Posted by Bill Peterson

Could you say a few words about this? The last time I compiled Angband was on Linux, but I suppose I should get up to speed if I want to get involved with the Sil rewrite

The Windows releases are currently built on Linux using mingw configured as a cross-compiler. In particular, it's done on GitHub using an environment (Ubuntu 18.04 with additional preinstalled software) prepackaged by GitHub (a GitHub "runner"). GitHub is phasing out Ubuntu 18.04 (current termination date is April 1st, 2023) so something different will have to be done for the releases. An easy way to handle the change would be to use a different GitHub runner, either using Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04. Both have newer versions of the cross-compiler, and the version on 20.04, at least, generated FAangband executables that didn't run on Windows 8.1.

[smbhax]

Originally Posted by backwardsEric

If you had used "make install" rather than "make", zlib and libpng12 would have been copied to the same directory as the executable. The procedure entry point could not be found message has been reported before, http://angband.oook.cz/forum/showpos...&postcount=253 . I didn't figure out what was causing it then, except that it went away when the executable was built with the version of mingw (5.0.3-1) in Ubuntu 18.04. Executables built with mingw 7.0.0-2 in Ubuntu 20.04 triggered that error, at least for one person using Windows 8.1.

With the build procedure update ( http://angband.oook.cz/forum/showthread.php?t=11350 ) I tried compiling the Windows version again myself under WSL Ubuntu with

./autogen.sh
./configure --enable-win --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --enable-skip-old-int-typedefs
make install

and the old "procedure entry point e" run error is gone, but now double-clicking the generated .exe just leaves the mouse pointer busy for a while, then nothing (and I have to kill the "Angband (32 bit)" task).

Ah, if copy the angband dir (minus src dir) from the \\wsl$ directory to a regular directory on my hard drive and try running angband.exe from there, I get an "angband.exe - Application Error" pop-up window:

The application was unable to start correctly (0xc00000005).
Click OK to close the application.