RE: XWin design suggestion

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at ssiddiqi dot com>]

I had been watching the list.  Harold had done some excellent work on
advancing Cygwin/Xfree to current status.

It was my goal too, to compile XWin.exe with Microsoft Visual Studio.
The initial work was done with Cygwin to get this going and make porting
to VC easier.  Therefore Win32-X11 at Source.redhat.com was started.  I
was able to patch all the libraries and xclients, even 70% of XWin.exe
code written by Harold.  However, due to my increasing responsibilities
at work, I had no spare time and stop contributing to several Open
Source projects, like Cygwin/xfree, win32-x11, opendx, and lesstif.

I do still have patched sources of win32-x11 stored on a CD.  Harold if
you need it, and you think it might be useful, I cant send the CD to
you. It is now almost a year old patched work of Xfree86 4.1.0.  I am
sure some of the X-libraries will require patching again. Compilation
with Visual C does require MinW32 version of Flex and Bison.  Flex is
needed to compile some of the fonts.

Suhaib  




-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
[mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 10:49 AM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: XWin design suggestion

Sylvain,

Because, as I have reiterated over and over, XWin.exe is a Windows 
application, not a Cygwin application.

As an aside, one of my goals is to have a stand-alone version of 
XWin.exe, building off of Suhaib's work, that does not depend upon 
Cygwin at all.  It will mostly be a proof of concept, but it would also 
be cool if X.org accepted the code into their sample implementation. 
Granted, it wouldn't have all of the libraries and programs, but it 
would be an X Server that ran on Windows.

Thus, I want to avoid making XWin.exe a Cygwin app.  Others may not 
agree, but that is certainly my goal.

Harold

Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> Why would we write outside of the cygwin filesystem to complete this ?
> Let us remain structured.
> 
>  --- Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> a écrit : 
> 
>>Biju,
>>I think we all forgot about one option: Why don't we use the
>>interface 
>>to (for example) C:\Documents and Settings\User_Foo\Application 
>>Data\CygwinXFree86\... ?  Is there such an interface or is it largely
> 
> 
>>just an issue of getting the proper directory to write your config
>>files to?
>>
> 
> 
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