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Fw: Xggi
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- Subject: Fw: Xggi
- From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
- Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 07:14:49 -0400
The following message came from author XGGI for XFree86.
He is also working on getting X-server for Win32.
Briefly, the GGI static libraries will not work.
--SMS
----- Original Message -----
From: Marcus Sundberg <mackan@stacken.kth.se>
To: Suhaib M. Siddiqi <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 1999 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: Xggi
> Suhaib M. Siddiqi wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to XGGI working under Cygwin32.
> > I got libggi.a ported to Cygwin32, though not tested.
> >
> > When I compile XGGI, I get tons of undefiend references, like below:
> > Any suggestions? Or should I try out your MingW32 for glibc and do the
> > compilation of Linux?
>
> Hi,
>
> allthough you could in theory use a static libggi.a library the fact
> that a static library is built is a safe guarantee that LibGGI will
> not work. This is because the whole LibGGI design is based around
> dynamicly loading display targets and rendering modules.
>
> Porting LibGGI to win32 (native and cygwin) and making XGGI run under it
> is is however planned for the future. Btw, if you have any experience
> with DirectDraw it would be great if you could give us a hand in writing
> a DirectX target for LibGGI.
>
> In any case I'll let you know when any progress is done with the win32
> porting.
>
> file://Marcus
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