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hello im a new gamer (trying to be one ) and not good at computers i would yust like to now what
i need to downloade i have tried downloading the windows client from
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfil ... _id=196167
but it whont downloade properly (is the client only 1,6mb?) and when i have installed it says that a LIBGLIB-2.0-0.DLL file wasnt found (man im hating dll files) im using windows 95 by the way

The installer itself is indeed 1,6MB only.
But, as specified in the README file (which you did read, didn't you? ), you *MUST* download and install GTK libraries, too...

URL is http://www.dropline.net/gtk/download.php
Grab only the runtime environment

oh...(feels dum )....thanks

AAAARRGGHHH it still says it needs a dll(mann i still hate dll files) file LIBGLIB-2.0-0.dll to be exact
and this time i Have installed the runtime enviroment from http://www.dropline.net/gtk/download.php hlp plz

Strange the full library version is used (LIBGLIB-2.0-0.dll is gtk 2, minor release 0 revision 0 if am not wrong). Check your system for a library named LIBGLIB-2.?-?.dll (? being whatever you want. if it exist, copy it in the gtkclient directory and rename it to LIBGLIB-2.0.0.dll). Tell us if it work (or not).

it is not there but thx for trying

slatibarfast wrote:it is not there but thx for trying

You need to add GTK's installation directory to your PATH variable.

Now under Windows 95 I don't remember how to do that, except modify autoexec.bat perhaps?

If you installed GTK in C:\Program files\Common Files\GTK\2.0, standard path, you need to add the following path:
C:\Program files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\lib

This directory hopefully contains ALL DLLs you'll need from GTK, including the missing libglibxxx.

Then either relaunch the client, or, if you modified autoexec.bat, reboot & relaunch...

hey i found it it was lying in the lib folder. But what should i do now i dont under stand what ryo is talking about i couldnt find a autoexec.bat file where should it be?(i REALLY hate dll files).
Btw it doesnt apear to be able to find any .dll files when i try to open the exe files in the bin folder it says i need all kinds of dll files all of witch is lying in the folder right next to them

and still thx for trying

autoexec.bat resides in c:\ (hopefully!).

You should either modify it to change the PATH variable, as decribed previously. Or put gtkclient.exe in that lib directory (or are you saying you tried and this doesn't work?)

Now, you are using Win95, which may lack some DLLs. Maybe things like Wsock32.dll. In this case, try finding installers on Microsoft's website, hopefully they have versions for Win95 (but no guarantee here)

As far as i remember, win95 looks for dll at 2 places

The first one is in the windows directories (where there is a BUNCH of dlls)

The second is the directory the application needing it resides in.

I recommend the second way. Since there are not a lot of windows gtk based applications, this shouldn't be a problem to copy the gtk/lib dlls in each gtk application directory


Now about winsock2, that's true, win95 commes with a 'buggy' winsock1.
The easiest way is to install the microsoft winsock 2 for win95

To do this, install
winsock2 update and after the winsock2 and dun1.3 year 2000 update (both at microsoft website)