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RE: XGGI Update
- To: John Fortin <fortinj at ibm dot net>
- Subject: RE: XGGI Update
- From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 23:38:31 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: "cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com" <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Organization: Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc
On 04-Jan-00 John Fortin wrote:
> More good news... I have gotten xterm to (mostly) work. Some keys are
> not mapped properly ( backspace for one)
> but I can type Upper/Lower case, commands work, and lots of control-keys
> work (ex. ctrl-m as alternate enter).
John
That could be termcap file in your /etc.
>
> Suhaib,
> Have you ever tried compiling XGGI using straight mingw32?? I would
> like to get away from the cygwin1.dll, if possible. How about the other
> X11 binaries ( xterm, twm, etc ?)
>
John xterm cannot be compiled using MingW32 or MSVC because it requires ttys.
I am patching X11 code for MingW32. It is a lot more work to patch X11 code for
MingW32 then for Cygwin. I would in the near future provide XGGI binaries
compiled with MSVC and also Cygwin.
Suhaib
> Thanks
> John
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E-Mail: Suhaib M. Siddiqi <Ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>
Date: 03-Jan-00
Time: 23:35:03
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