libjpeg-8.dll

[xcomfanatic20]

Hello Folks
Tried to download source using Git but for some reason, Git would not download to my Windoze 7 system.
Undaunted, I simply downloaded the source from the Downloads page (source and data versions 2.4).

After a lot of stuffing around, including using the codeblocks installable with MinGW configured (from codeblocks site) instead of the
version for UFO-AI, I was able to build the code. I noticed a couple of things.
- When I select BUILD->RUN from the menu in codeblocks, the program runs no problems.
- When I try to run the executable directly from the UFO-AI directory, I get the error:

    "The program can't start because libjpeg-8.dll is missing from your computer...."

- I downloaded the full game installer as well and installed in a separate directory. This one runs fine. When I compared the sizes of the files, the one I built was around 11726k, while the file in from the game installer was 30,713k.

As I said earlier, the program runs fine from the development environment, but not when you run the executable directly. What am I missing here?

Thank you for your help and patience in advance.

[Mattn]

you are not linking statically - but dynamically. make sure to copy the contrib/dlls files from the git repo [1] to your game root dir:

[1] gitweb/contrib/dlls

[xcomfanatic20]

Thanks. No more error messages. I knew it was something obvious.
Learning the quirks of codeblocks and the code structure as I go along.
Wish me luck. Great open sauce game.