Hey, I just put the changes-only SWP on top of a clean install of 4e, and every time I start up DF, it spits an error entitled "Dwarf Fortress.exe - Entry Point Not Found" at me, saying that:
The procedure entry point
*crunch*
could not be located in the dynamic link library SDL.dll
Is this something I should worry about? Normally I would just play and not worry if it crashes, but this is for the my next LP fortress, so I want things to be stable.
Drat. The changes-only files are automatically generated, and unfortunately there's no way in a zipfile to stay that something
should be removed from an existing directory tree. If you're using the unified changes, it could be that an old dfhack binary file is floating around and causing pain. I could potentially get the zipfile to contain zero-length files for things which should be removed, and that
might work as far as DFHack is concerned.
If this is happening with the master (not unified) changes file, then I need to do some more digging. That shouldn't contain any binary changes to DFHack, and so we shouldn't see any sort of .dll errors.
The full downloads are about 77 MB in size, and github is pretty speedy, so for now I'd recommend downloading a full copy rather than just the changes zip.
If you super care about stability, then the master download is the way to go, since it only contains conservative changes. Unified has DFHack r4 (which may still have a few bugs lurking), and the nerfed diseases changes from thistleknot (which appear to be working, but I haven't had a chance to wrap my head around them all). I think we've got all the bugs in those ironed out, and people are reporting less problems with DFHack r4 guild transforms than with r3, but if you're super-paranoid then master is an easy "Masterwork + bugfixes" download.
In any case, I'm hugely looking forward to your next LP!
~ T