Re: [hatari-devel] Hatari 2.6.1 startup failure on Windows

[Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 16/08/2025 à 14:16, Christian Zietz a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I suppose you already saw: https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php? 
> p=484369#p484369. Hatari 2.6.1 release fails to start on Windows.
>
> After looking into it, I presume that the headers (devel package) for 
> winpthreads was updated to now include nanosleep64 instead of nanosleep. 
> But the libwinpthread-1.dll shipped with the release is older; it's the 
> same that shipped with 2.6.0, and only exports nanosleep. If I replace 
> said DLL by the current binary from https://packages.msys2.org/packages/ 
> mingw-w64-x86_64-libwinpthread, Hatari launches without error message.
>
> The release archive should be updated accordingly. Perhaps the archive 
> should also be renamed, to make clear that its contents has changed.
>
> Regards
> Christian
>
> PS: Interestingly, the pipeline build is not affected. Therefore, the 
> build environments for pipeline and release must be different. Perhaps 
> it's worth discussing whether Hatari should use its CI/CD pipeline to 
> build releases, like EmuTOS does. In that way you get some test coverage 
> of the build environment when people use pipeline builds.

Hi

thanks for the report, as mentionned on atari-forum.com this is now 
fixed and was due to an unnoticed package update on my linux pc + not 
correctly testing with "wine"

Nicolas