Widelands without sound on win

[Tino]

Currently the Widelands Windows Installer allows to (de)select both background music and sound effects.
While Widelands runs fine without music files, it does crash when the sound files are missing:

$ ./widelands.exe
Set home directory: C:\Users\user\.widelands
Widelands executable directory: C:\bin\Widelands
Adding directory: C:\bin\Widelands.
selected language: de
Graphics: Try to set Videomode 800x600
Graphics: OpenGL: Version "4.3.0 - Build 10.18.14.4139"
Graphics: OpenGL: Double buffering enabled
Graphics: OpenGL: Max texture size: 16384
**** GRAPHICS REPORT ****
 VIDEO DRIVER windows
 pixel fmt 370546692
 size 800 600
**** END GRAPHICS REPORT ****

Caught exception (of type '10WException') in outermost handler!
The exception said: [C:/projects/widelands/src/sound/sound_handler.cc:254] SoundHandler: Can't load files from sound, not a directory!

This should not happen. Please file a bug report on version master-222(Release).
and remember to specify your operating system.

This does happen although my config lists:
[global]
disable_fx="true"
sound_at_message="false"

[SirVer (sirver)]

I can see that making music optional is an argument for total size of download archive, but the same cannot really be made for the sound files. Right now the sound effects accumulate to 2.2MB in total. I would prefer to never make them optional.

Why does the installer allow to not install them in the first place?

[Tino (tino79)]

I have no idea. The definition of those packages:

  Name: Widelands
  Name: Music;
  Name: Sound;
  Name: Maps;

were already defined when i joined the project. But i agree, the sound files are so small it doesn't make sense.
I will create a branch and remove "Sound" and "Maps" and move the files into the main "Widelands" package.

And let's see, if i can remove the elevated rights usage from the installer...

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

Fixed in build19-rc1.