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Re: Compiling XWin (modular Xorg)


On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 01:55:17PM -0500, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>On Dec 11, 2007 11:49 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
>> Janjaap Bos wrote:
>> > The changes I made are all in the patch. Let me know when you have
>> > suggestions, and whether you're able to build it. Perhaps Yaakov is
>> > willing to check it with his findings.
>>
>> Thank you VERY much.  I will try to look into this into the near future,
>> as the server is the only holdup in getting X11R7 finished on Cygwin.
>>
>Hi all,
>
>Have you guys checked out the Xming patches
>(http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingCode/)? Most of them modify code
>that is the same as we use and contain many fixes to current problems
>we are experiencing, such as the 24bpp issue. Also, a lot of AG's
>fixes he did not commit to either trunk or the cygwin branch. He's
>also come up with a rather unsavory, yet workable hack to the
>overloaded function issue. There are a ton of DD improvements to the
>GLX acceleration code, too. Admittedly, the person who runs that
>project is still using monolithic as the base and has a rather bizarre
>way of updating the sources uses modular code, but still, it ought to
>be worthwhile to check out. Unfortunately, he keeps his latest changes
>behind a "donation" paywall, but I'm sure if asked by a well know
>cygwin-xorg developer, he would be willing to part with them.
>
>As for the overloaded function problem, I do recall we had this same
>issue back in 2002-2003 with shared libXt. You might want to search
>through the archives on that one for the whole story. It was a real
>frustrating problem to deal with, but a good solution was found that
>worked well.
>
>I had a thought on packaging. Perhaps we should adopt the Fedora
>scheme? I mean they seem to have packaged it nicely without having 60+
>packages. We would still want our versioned packages for the runtime,
>but it should help to cut down on the number of packages without
>having binary compatibility problems. You could then use the current
>cygwin x11-xorg package names as "collection" stubs for the individual
>ones. Just a thought.

Who are you talking to here exactly?  We don't have a Cygwin/X
maintainer so any suggestions or great ideas are guaranteed not to
be implmenented.

cgf

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