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RE: Porting Xfree 86 to Windows 2000
- From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at ssiddiqi dot com>
- Cc: <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:54:01 -0500
- Subject: RE: Porting Xfree 86 to Windows 2000
- Reply-to: <ssiddiqi at ssiddiqi dot com>
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Venkatesh Ballani wrote:
>
> > HI,
> > Thanks for information, I have specific problem....i
> want to convert
> > whole Xfree86 package into windows 2000..which later ported into
> > target platform..while porting Xfree86 into windows 2000
> using nmake
> > command...
>
> There is also a project which tries to compile xfree86 with
> the MS SDK. See http://sources.redhat.com/win32-x11/
>
> > system generates errors at imake.c .... Please guide
> me.,... is there
> > any other way to solve this problem....
I replied to this on win32-x11 mailing list. A clip of a few error
messages are not going to help diagnose problem. If you are attempting
to compile xfree86 on Win32 using MSVC, it needs a lot patching... and
as Alexander mentioned a high level of programming skill. The WIN32-X11
project DOE NOT attempt to port XFree86 to Win32. It is X11R6.5 based
with server code and patches added to the X11R6.5.x sources tree.
Although, I had been working on patching Xfree86 to compile with MSVC++,
but due to busy schedule it is far from complete. I had not released
any patches for xfree86 to compile MSVC yet.
Suhaib
>
> Sorry, I can neither guess what errors you get, nor am I
> willing to describe C basics. Porting a project as complex as
> xfree requires a high level of
> programming skills.
>
> If you want to start contributing to this project, please read
> http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/cg/
>
> Maybe this will also help you with your problem.
>
> bye
> ago
> BTW: Please keep replys to the mailing list
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