Re: X-server for cygwin-1.1.4 under Win98

[Christian Jönsson <c dot christian dot joensson at telia dot com>]

Great. Thank you, now I get it, sorry for being soft headed here.
The contrib X-server is not cygwin based. It's "pure" win32 using MSVC. 
Thank you for clarifying that to me.

Cheers,

/ChJ

Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> > [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Christian
> > Jonsson
> > Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 7:22 AM
> > To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > Subject: Re: X-server for cygwin-1.1.4 under Win98
> >
> >
> > Thanks for you reply. Let me ask try to get some things
> > straight to myself and ask you a few clarification questions
> > please.
> >
> > Is it correct understanding of me that there is a working,
> > i.e., on cygwin-1.1.4 under Win98, X-Server available
> > from the contrib directory?
> >
> 
> YES
> 
> > This server, presumably
> >
> > 8465407 Jun  4 14:12 X-servers-v-1.0.tar.bz2
> > 1032745 Jun  9 23:56 X-servers-v-1.0-exe.tar.bz2
> >
> > is not "interoperable" with your xfree86-4.0.1 binary
> > distribution available in
> >
> > ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/xfree/xc-4-binaries/
> >
> > right?
> 
> Right
> 
> >
> > Or is there some way of getting the server working with your
> > binaries?
> 
> Those are also "my binaries" but a different kind of X-server, not drived
> from XFree
> thus cannot be mixed and matched... code of it was contributed by
> Hans de Bock and modified by me later.  It was compiled using MSVC and
> does not uses CYgwin therefore no luck to mix it with XFree86... if you
> insists mixing it you are on your own risk and do not yell if a
> boxer hand comes out of your Win98 and punch your face ;-)
> 
> Suhaib
> 
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > /ChJ
> >
> >
> > Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> > > > [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Christian
> > > > Jonsson
> > > > Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 4:51 AM
> > > > To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > > > Subject: X-server for cygwin-1.1.4 under Win98
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I simply would like to ask the current status of
> > > > having a cygwin X-server running on a Win98 box.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Bad for you.  To get it working on Windoze98/95 ask M$ to
> > > stop burrying 16-bit GUI code in the so-called gdi32.dll and
> > > kernel32.dll to disguise the end-users with the notion
> > > of Windows98/95 being true 32-bit kernel and gdi.
> > >
> > > > Is there a X-server working?
> > >
> > > yes
> > >
> > > >
> > > > If so, where is it located and where can I read
> > > > about how to start it?
> > >
> > > in the contrib directory, x-servers... but for God sake do not even
> > > think of mixing binaries from xc-4-binaries directory to x-servers...
> > > from contrib directory.
> > >
> > > Suhaib
> > >
> > > >
> > > > TIA,
> > > >
> > > > /ChJ