Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Finally got Gaim displaying on Win32
I used Gaim as my IM client for quite a while. When my laptop hard drive died and I had to rebuild it, I installed GAIM, but it didn't work any more. More specifically, gaim.exe would load (and be visible in Task Manager), but no UI would be visible. I tried newer and older versions of Gaim, to no avail. I gave up and went back to Yahoo Messenger.
Finally, today, I took another look at Gaim. Right in the FAQ there was an entry for "If you use 0.75 or higher on win32, try deleting tcl.dll". I tried it out, and it worked. Furthermore, no ill effects from deleting this DLL have been observed. So why is it installed in the first place?
