Windows Nightly Builds

[John Ralls]

> On Apr 28, 2016, at 7:38 AM, Robert Fewell <14ubobit at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have just finished testing the nightly build on my XP VM and this is what I have found...
> 
> If I install from the nightly build I get this error on start up but it carries on and opens as usual...
> 
> This is a development version. It may or may not work.
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> 3:2016/04/28 14-51-57:gwen(1112):i18n.c:  120: No translation found for WIN32 locale [English_United Kingdom.1252]
> 
> If I do my own build and run it from the inst directory, it works as normal with out any error messages.
> If I create my own setup.exe by using dist.sh and install that it runs as usual with no errors on start up.
> 
> Strangely the resulting file sizes are different, nightly build was 104583k and mine is 101270k
> 
> Regarding Windows10, it fails to start, to do with time zones, "Year 2016 isn't covered by this time zone." but I will investigate further.

Master uses new time zone code adapted from GLib's into C++. I developed and tested it on Win7 before Win10 was released. I suppose it's possible that Win8 or Win10 have a new TZ API that I need to accommodate.

Regards,
John Ralls