RE: How to build shared librairie with Cygwin

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

I removed the references to Lesstif binaries from FAQ.  I hope this helps.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michel Bardiaux [mailto:mbardiaux@peaktime.be] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 9:12 AM
> To: Suhaib Siddiqi
> Cc: 'cygwin-xfree@xfree.cygwin.com'; 'lesstif@lesstif.org'
> Subject: Re: How to build shared librairie with Cygwin
> 
> 
> Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> > 
> > I actually find this long thread useless.  The complainer 
> knows there is a
> > Cygwin/Xfree86 FAQ and knows the URL.  There are names of 
> maintainer, and
> > core team members listed on Cygwin/Xfree86 URL.  There is a 
> mailing list to
> > complain, yell, or whine, and... above all I prefer users 
> who like to give a
> > hand to an open source project then to whine about minor 
> things.  If absense
> > of LessTif precompiled binaries are worrying Michel 
> Bardiaux so much then
> > how about he takes the task of helping LessTif and 
> Cygwin/Xfree86 project to
> > provide precompiled binaries?
> > 
> > Suhaib
> 
> Please let me go back to the origin of this thing. Someone asked in
> comp.windows.x.motif how to convert a UNIX/X11 application to 
> the WIN32
> API. I replied such an extensive conversion was not necessary because
> Cygwin provided the X server and the X11 and Xt libraries, and Lesstif
> could provide the Xm library if needed. While checking the 
> URLs I found
> the announcement for "LessTif precompiled binaries for 
> Cygwin", thought
> "Great news!", then ended up uncomfortably between 2 
> contradictory FAQs.
> I tried to notify their maintainers, and that seems to make me rather
> unpopular. OK, now the request will be in the cygwin-xfree 
> list, so I'll
> shut up.
> 
> As for 'putting up' ('give a hand rather than whining'), one 
> can't very
> well work on *all* Open Source projects one comes into contact with.
> Give and take *on the whole*. I'm currently working on something
> entirely different which *will* be GPL; it would be 
> "inefficient" (as 7
> of 9 would put it) to try and become an expert in both Cygwin and the
> Lesstif building process when I know so little about them.
> 
> Well, actually, as a penance, I can contribute something for Lesstif.
> See another message with subject "XmListSelectPosPlus".
> 
> Greetings.
> -- 
> Michel Bardiaux
> Peaktime Belgium S.A.  Rue Margot, 37  B-1457 Nil St Vincent
> Tel : +32 10 65.44.15  Fax : +32 10 65.44.10
>