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Beyond that, I ran into the issue that any of the packages can change at any time, and there's no way to get any but the latest version. And a change can break the build - I set up a shell script to download the packages and build from a freeciv source tarfile, and it worked until one day it didn't...

New freeciv-3.2 Windows (msys2) build with meson, from sources of 23-Oct-26 (3.2.6+-261023), commit '1a16be1897', available at https://files.freeciv.org/packages/windows/testing/cazfi/installer_msys2/snapshots/meson/freeciv-3.2/ Change log since 3.2.6: gitlog-3.2.6..1a16be1897.log Change log since p...

New action type Scout RM #2184

It shows the area around the target tile (which can be some distance away from the actor unit) for a turn.

As an example, granularity ruleset is going to implement "Recon" air unit mission type with this action.

New freeciv-3.3 Windows (msys2) build with meson, from sources of 19-Oct-26 (3.3.0-alpha3+261019), commit '4bf5b8eb63', available at https://files.freeciv.org/packages/windows/testing/cazfi/installer_msys2/snapshots/meson/freeciv-3.3/ Change log since previous snapshot build: gitlog-189339da3f..4bf5...

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cazfi wrote: ↑Mon Oct 19, 2026 5:51 pm

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if ! cp data/freeciv-client.icns "${SERVERCONTENTS}/Resources/freeciv-server.icns" ; then

Shouldn't you be copying freeciv-server.icns, not freeciv-client.icns here?

I changed that part, and added patches to the redmine ticket. Also changed lua@5.4 to lua@5.5 in S3_3/main patches.

Shouldn't you be copying freeciv-server.icns, not freeciv-client.icns here?

cazfi wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2026 4:50 pmEventually I'd like to get the build script merged to the source repository - to be part of the official source release

-> https://redmine.freeciv.org/issues/2388

I'm giving the build script a spin in github actions. Noticed this in the logs:

hdiutil: WARNING: 'hdiutil create -volname -format ...' is deprecated. Please use 'diskutil image create from/blank --volumeName --format ...' instead.

Emscripten client development version running on my machine emscripten.png I think we will get the emscripten client merged to freeciv source repository by freeciv-3.3.0-beta2. Anybody wanting to host a site serving emscripten based games? This could be based either on a (soon) stable freeciv-3.3, o...