FlightGear-0.7.3 updated windows binaries

["Curtis L. Olson" <curt@me.umn.edu>]

Priority: High

Thanks to some top notch detective work and a little luck on the part
of Norman Vine, the bug in the prebuilt FlightGear-0.7.3 windows
executable that was causing crashes on many people's systems has been
tracked down.  I have uploaded a new binary package to the FlightGear
ftp server:

    ftp://ftp.flightgear.org/pub/fgfs

The new file you want to download is in the "Win32" subdirectory and
is called "fgfs-win32-bin-0.7.3a.exe".  You can just install this over
the top of your existing installation.  If you've already downloaded
and installed version 0.7.3 of the base package, you don't need to do
that again.

For those that are interested in the specifics of the bug:

The distributed executable is built with the open-source cygwin
gcc/g++ compilers.  We think it is important that an open-source
project should be able to build with open-source compiler tools.
Executables built with the cygwin compilers need to load in a special
dll called cygwin1.dll.  This ships with the FlightGear binary
distribution.

The problem was that somewhere along the way, some change we made in
our code exposed a bug in the cygwin1.dll that caused a crash on some
systems.  Updating to the latest cygwin1.dll appears to solve the
problem.

Regards,

Curt.
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Curtis Olson   Human Factors Research Lab       Flight Gear Project
Twin Cities    curt@hfrl.umn.edu                curt@flightgear.org
Minnesota      http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt   http://www.flightgear.org
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