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Re: xlib threads, xwinx
- To: Kim Saunders <kim dot saunders at mercuryit dot com dot au>
- Subject: Re: xlib threads, xwinx
- From: Alan Hourihane <alanh at fairlite dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 09:33:32 +0000
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <1005538536.7699.5.camel@allords>
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 03:15:35PM +1100, Kim Saunders wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> First of all, a big thank you to all of you involved in cygwin-xfree and
> cygwin generally. I've been using cygwin for all the general stuff for a
> while (when I absolutely *have* to use windows...).
>
> More recently, I've used cygwin and cygwin-xfree to create XWinX, a
> project which some on this list might be interested in. Basically, it's
> an X client for win32 that uses cygwin and xlib to project the windows
> desktop into a window on the X server. Details at http://www.xwinx.org/.
>
> Anyway, it's definately something that couldn't exist without the hard
> work of everyone involved with cygwin, xfree86, and cygwin-xfree, so
> thanks.
>
> My question relates to threading with xlib on windows. Calling
> XInitThreads() seems to return a value suggesting that threading is
> *not* supported in the xlib distributed with cygwin-xfree. Is this
> correct?
>
Yes. In 4.1.0 it is disabled. In the upcoming 4.2.0 release (or use the
current CVS) it is supported.
Alan.