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RE: Development Status Update 6


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
> 

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