[hatari-devel] Hatari 2.6.1 startup failure on Windows

[Christian Zietz <czietz@xxxxxxx>]

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.
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