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RE: Development Status Update 6
- To: "'Harold Hunt'" <Harold at compasstechnologies dot com>, "Cygx (E-mail)" <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: Development Status Update 6
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 13:00:02 -0500
Can we not do it without Wine headers?
It will still be a big support nightmare, even WINE code being under X
license.
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:Harold@compasstechnologies.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 11:49 AM
> To: Cygx (E-mail)
> Subject: Development Status Update 6
>
>
> It turns out that Wine is using the X11 license which means
> that we might be
> able to adapt the Wine ddraw.h and related headers into a
> form that will
> work with Cygwin; I'm wating for approval on that...
>
> Not being one to wait for approval, :) I decided I'd see if
> the Wine headers
> would actually compile and produce a working XWin.exe that
> fills the main
> window with blue. I was successful in my attempt to compile
> the standard
> Cygwin windows headers with the Wine ddraw.h header (and
> related headers);
> the compiled executable performs as expected.
>
> A little work would need to be done to adapt the Wine ddraw.h
> and related
> headers to fit into the Cywgin header framework, however, the
> amount of work
> to adapt the Wine headers would be about 1/100th of the amount of work
> required to re-enter the entire set of headers.
>
> I'll keep everyone posted,
>
> Harold
>