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RE: ntxlib works on Windows 95
- To: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, "'vischne at ibm dot net'" <vischne at ibm dot net>
- Subject: RE: ntxlib works on Windows 95
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 10:13:29 +0300
vischne@ibm.net wrote:
> The reason I say this is that libX11 doesn't have a `main' entry point and
> assumes, Unix-style, that the X-program calling libX11 will have a `main'.
>
> ntxlib, on the other hand, uses WinMain to get hInstance, without which
> you cannot generate Windows with CreateWindow calls. WinMain gets
> the argc and argv parameters and passes them to a call on main().
>
WinMain() isn't neccessary for proper operation. It's easy to call
hInstance = GetModuleHandle(); in ntxlib's XOpenDisplay() implementation.
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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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