[conquest] Can't start windows client!

[Jon Trulson]

On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Jon Trulson wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Ingo Pussar wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>> I have trouble using the precompiled binary on a Windows XP machine, but
[...]
>
>  How... odd.
>
>> I thought this could be a problem with the windows or router firewall
>> blocking UDP, but adding -u option doesn't help.
>> 
>
>  Yeah, that would not make a diff - I wonder if there is something
>  subtly different in host lookups... At least on my VBox VM's, I have
>  not seen this problem.
>
>  What if you specify the metaserver IP directly on the cmd line,
>  like:
>
>  conquestgl -M 216.160.163.4
>
>  Does it work?  Can you login to one of the servers?
>

   Ok, some investigation turns up this little windows socket function,
   WSAStartup() that needs to be called prior to doing any socket i/o.

   I do not see this issue on any of my VBoxen (Win XP and 7), but it
   may be required.  Don't know.  I've added this call and placed a
   test conquestgl.exe binary on my website:

   http://radscan.com/~jon/files/conquestgl.exe

   $ md5sum conquestgl.exe
   1d856afe7f8e3dfdbc8ca4b9d381cb5f  conquestgl.exe

   The version is 8.5.1 (4/22/2010) so you can make sure it's the right
   one when you run it.  Copy it into your Conquest\bin\ dir and let me
   know if anything changes...

   I tested it here, but see no difference (don't have this problem).
   Maybe you will have good luck.  If it works, let me know and I'll
   create a new zip package release on sourceforge (windows only).

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