RE: Header X11/Xw32defs.h missing

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Gotta reply to the list, not me.

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Evans, Jr. [mailto:evans@aps.anl.gov]
> Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 7:08 PM
> To: Harold L Hunt
> Subject: RE: Header X11/Xw32defs.h missing
>
>
> Harold,
>
> I'm trying to build a program (X client) that uses libX, libXm, etc. using
> Visual C++ as the compiler.  (So far unsuccessfully.)  It looks like this
> header is included if WIN32 is defined, which I do.
>
> I now see the XFree86 stuff probably was not designed to be using
> WIN32 this
> way.  So, perhaps as far as XFree86 is concerned it *is*
> spurious.  (But the
> branch on WIN32 *is* in Xos.h.)
>
> BTW *is* it possible to build an X client using the XFree86 and LessTif
> libraries with Visual C++?
>
> I have been doing this using the Hummingbird Exceed X and Motif libraries,
> but I would like to consider changing to XFree86 and LessTif.  (Open Motif
> would be even better, but it isn't "open" for Windows.)  The same programs
> build with Open Motif or LessTif on Linux.  It would be a lot
> easier to use
> stuff that more resembles UNIX as XFree86 does.  And it would be nicer to
> use the "same" stuff on all platforms.
>
> An alternative is to use the Cygwin compiler (gcc).  This been more
> successful.  Then, WIN32 is not defined, but there are some other
> problems.
>
> Thanks,
>
> 	-Ken
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold L Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 3:32 PM
> To: Kenneth Evans@msu.edu, Jr.; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Header X11/Xw32defs.h missing
>
>
> Ken,
>
> What package are you trying to build?
>
> We've had a report that building OpenMOTIF causes this error because of a
> spurious #define.
>
> Harold
>
> "Kenneth Evans, Jr." <evans@aps.anl.gov> said:
>
> > The header X11/Xw32defs.h seems to be missing when you download the
> headers
> > via XFree-86-headers in Cygwin's setup.exe.  Thanks,
> >
> > 	-Ken
> >
> > c:\Cygwin\usr\X11R6\include\X11\Xos.h(142) : fatal error C1083: Cannot
> open
> > include file: 'X11/Xw32defs.h': No such file
> >
> >
>
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