[Scummvm-tracker] [ScummVM] #10613: ScummVM 2.0.0 on Windows 98

[digitall]

#10613: ScummVM 2.0.0 on Windows 98
------------------------------+-----------------------
  Reporter:  theandrewbailey  |      Owner:  (none)
      Type:  defect           |     Status:  new
  Priority:  normal           |  Component:  --Unset--
Resolution:                   |   Keywords:
      Game:                   |
------------------------------+-----------------------

Comment (by digitall):

 I don't think breaking compatibility was intentional.

 Due to this commit in 2017-12-06:
 https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/commit/be6963f9b8737b17368eb96350db529422b74446
 enabling release builds now enables https://winsparkle.org/ by default.

 The standard ScummVM v2.0.0 installer ships with the standard x86 prebuilt
 binary DLL for WinSparkle v0.5.7 which was the latest at the time:
 https://github.com/vslavik/winsparkle/releases/tag/v0.5.7

 This DLL does not seem to have been compiled to support Windows 98, and
 this was missed by the Win32 porters.

 Sorry about this. For now, I would recommend using a daily build from our
 downloads page instead:
 https://www.scummvm.org/downloads/#daily

 I suspect the Win32 daily snapshot builds from our Win32 porter will have
 the same issue, but may not if these are debug builds without Sparkle and
 the buildbot should not have sparkle enabled so the autogenerated builds
 should work on Win98.

 The other solution would be to replace the WINSPARKLE.DLL shipped with
 ScummVM v2.0.0 with one compiled to work on Windows 98 and upwards i.e.
 get the WinSparkle source code and recompile to a Win98 compatible DLL
 (unlike the pre-compiled binaries shipped by WinSparkle.org).

--
Ticket URL: <https://bugs.scummvm.org/ticket/10613#comment:1>
ScummVM <https://bugs.scummvm.org>
ScummVM