Windows builds 0.5.0

[gak]

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[gak]

@FrMo I've made a "feature locked" branch: releases/0.5.0. Only bugs for this release should go in here, including the last minute logo change, #57. (Sorry about that, I completely forgot about it.)

We can otherwise continue creating new features in the develop branch.

[gak]

@FrMo The installer changes are great. Good work! It works fine under a VM, I'll try it soon on an actual computer with Windows 7 on it. Screensaver is all good too. It also actually runs reasonable virtualised too.

I've updated the two images for the installer at 2091504 with the new logo.

[gak]

I've just been running Gravit from the beta2 on a real computer with Windows 7 (64bit). It runs amazingly well and fast :)

[FrMo]

@gak: just uploaded my personal "gravit build kit for MinGW"; it contains pre-compiled libs for 64bit and 32bit. If you like, just add it to the gravit website.

You might remember that getting a working set of libs for gcc 64bit is really painful ... in particular, SDL and freetype (precompiled with Visual studio) usually do not work; so I went through building for gcc from scratch.

[gak]

OK, I understand how painful it is as I tried to get that it going myself :)

I've put it on the TODO list for the website, #53

[FrMo]

@gak: did you try my last changes already? If there are no more code changes needed, I could do the final 0.5.0 windows build this weekend ... and then we should shoot a proper tag through the repo to once and forever mark the 0.5.0 codebase :)

[gak]

Yes, I mentioned a few posts ago that I tried beta2 and it worked great. I left it running over about 3 days and it worked flawlessly too.

Yes, please make a final build of the Windows installer.

[FrMo]

@gak: OK, finals build are in the usual location. Please add them to the website.

Wow, I'm glad we have the relase ready, after almost a year of adding small improvements here and there :-)

[gak]

Yup, I'm glad it's out too!