[ANNOUNCEMENT] The Win32 (Visual C compiled) Server

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

Finally there is a stable FIRST edition of a WIN32-X11 server is available
at http://sources.redhat.com/win32-x11.

NOTE: This is the first time and last time I am cc'ing message to
Cygwin/Xfree list because I do not know
how many have subscribed to win32-x11 list and how many of you are aware of
a MSVC project for
X11.  Future mails/posts concerning this project will be posted only to
win32-x11 list at
http://sources.redhat.com/win32-x11.

The server is stable, although it needs much more work.  I might release the
next version within 
a couple of weeks which would have more extensions built in.

I need to clean up the source code.  At present I build the xc directory in
bit and pieces to get X-server compiled.
Imakefiles needs a lot of patching which would allow "nmake World.Win32" to
build the entire X11R6.5.11 tree with
Win32 X-server, using MSVC 6.x.  I will most probably upload the clean code
base to CVS repository of win32-x11
this weekend.


Download win32-x11.tar.bz2 from the same server you downloaded this archive.

1)Unpack win32-x11.tar.bz2 into \XWIN32

2) Delete XWin.exe and startx.bat from XWin32\bin

3) Put XWin32.exe and startx.bat from this archive into \XWIn32\bin

4) From a DOS shell type startx


THINGS TO-DO:
============

1) Build all the most common extension.  At present server supports only
SHAPE extension

2) Build SGI GLX extension.

3) Clean up code of SGI GLU library from SGI OpenGL SI
(http://oss.sgi.com/projects)
   so it compiles with MSVC (Visual C++). SGI GL library compile. ANYONE
WILLING TO
   HELP CLEAN UP SGI GLU code for MSVC?

4) Far fetched plan - no where close to reality at the moment unless I have
some serious
   contributors - Implement a Windows manager to integrate X into Win32
Desktop for multi-windowing.

THIS SERVER DOES NOT USE ANY CODE FROM XFREE86.  IT IS A PURE X11R6.5.11
BASED FROM
X.ORG. NONE OF THE EXECUTABLE OR LIBRARY USE CYGWIN1.DLL THEREFORE NO XTERM,
XDM
AND LBX (LIBPROXY).

Suhaib