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Re: precompiled X11 libs
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: precompiled X11 libs
- From: Dirk Vangestel <gesteld at se dot bel dot alcatel dot be>
- Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 08:32:47 +0100
At 04:58 PM 1/31/97 -0500, Joe Marzot wrote:
>does this mean my X apps will now port and run on NT without a
>commercial X server? what's to stop the XFree 86 server from running
>under cygwin?
All XFree86 servers use the video hardware directly. A new server will
be required which uses a Windows-compatible manner to access the video
hardware... I'm thinking of using DirectX for this purpose, but I have
yet to get DirectX programs to compile (I'm a bit pressed for time at
the moment). If anyone has a better idea, please let me know...
Oh, and I'm not making promises that there will ever be a Win32 XFree,
but we are looking into it :-)
Dirk
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