arg list too long

[paul67]

hi
I installed freeciv 1.14.1 under win2000 but i cannot start locally. I always get the message: Arg list too long .


How can i solve this ?



thnx Paul

[Yog-Sothoth]

You have to give us more information than that.

How are you executing the program?

Which parameters are you giving in?

etc

[paul67]

through startmenu freeciv freecivclient.
like i did with 1.14.0

so just as i comes out of the exe

[Yog-Sothoth]

Hmm, you could check what the menu-entry actually execute. It may have a messed up syntax or somthing. Post it here.

Have you tried starting it "manually" from the command line? (open up a Dos shell)

[paul67]

"C:\Program Files\Freeciv\civclient.exe"


If i try it from explorer window it gives the same result

if i try it by opening a doswindow (cmd) , goto freeciv dir and type civclient. I get the following (OS)message :
the dynamic link library iconv.dll could not be found in de specified path.


So any idea's ?

[Yog-Sothoth]

Not really, sorry

I don't use Windows, and it works for me in GNU/Linux.

I was wondering if "Arg list too long" referred to command line arguments given in, but as I see from what you post, there are no arguments given at all.

Sound like you are missing a dll-file, but in an older thread I noticed that Per suggested to delete that same file to make an earlier version work...

Per, what is going on here?

[paul67]

although i didn't need to in the prev version: Do i need to start the server to be able to play ?


paul

[Yog-Sothoth]

Originally posted by paul67
although i didn't need to in the prev version: Do i need to start the server to be able to play ?


paul

Yes

[paul67]

so the automatic start of the server is no more ?

[Yog-Sothoth]

Ah sorry, I misinterpreted your question. You will of course always have to run the server to play, but if it's started automaticly or not I don't know. If that feature was there before, I don't see any reason that it would have been removed from this version.

[Per]

Which version of 1.14.1 for windows did you use? There are two - the native and the gtk2 version. What version of gtk did you install? GTK should have iconv. I don't understand why you would get that argv error.

[paul67]

I use gtk2 version.
I start the civclient without starting the civserver first.
Then when i choose connect i get the arg too long message

[paul67]

update

when i start civserver first, i get in civclient "arg list too long" and the civserver quits.

so what's wrong ?

i use win2000
have gtk+ installed
have a pentium 3 650MHZ

[Vasc]

Ignore the error message.

For those who know C : The code is borked in that place. It checks the value of 'errno' to determine the network error message string using 'strerror'. But that only works on UNIX/BSD, Winsock uses an alternate way of reporting errors. Microsoft in their wisdom (ahem) decided to make their own standard as usual.

In plain English: Ignore the error message. The most likely cause for the error is due to a failure to find the server (you cannot connect to it, it may even not be up at all).