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INSTALL.html#compile_Windows was (Re: DDD 3.3.8 (i686-pc-cygwin)gets `Segmentation fault)


Arnaud Desitter wrote:
> Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>> Richard Campbell wrote:
>>>Arnaud Desitter wrote:
>>>>http://www.lesstif.org/INSTALL.html
>>>
>>> "On windows using Cygwin, U/WIN or Interix, LessTif must be built as
>>> static libraries. Because, one of the biggest issues with X on Win32
>>> is the moronic DLL format. Specifically - it is not possible to export
>>> data from a Win32 DLL in a form that can be used to statically initialize
>>> another global variable. Data access from a DLL requires at least one
>>> pointer indirection, and hence executable code. This is why X11R6 doesn't
>>> have DLLs for Xt/Xmu/Xaw (and Motif) on Win32."
>>>
>>> If yes, these rules have been changing.  Brian, isn't this what you
>>> were specifically working on recently?
>>>
I was just trying to help pick up the pieces.

Ralf Habacker and Harold L Hunt II fixed the shared Xt problem here:

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-10/msg00173.html

Then, Zhangrong Huang and Harold L Hunt II fixed lesstif here:

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-10/msg00347.html

> > The statement in quotes above is now misleading and completely
> > incorrect.  We are distributing *only* a shared version of LessTif on
> > Cygwin now.  The various problems mentioned in the quote all have
> > work-arounds, some of which were already used by OS/2; we enabled those
> > work-arounds and adding one or two more of our own and the shared
> > LessTif library compiles and works fine now.
> >
I'll take an action item to push these changes back upstream to lesstif,
but don't expect any particular time line.

> Fill free to contact the lesstif guys to fix it.
>
I did, here:

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-10/msg00291.html

They have not, yet.

I guess I need to supply an actual documentation patch.  Again, I'll put
it on my list.  But, don't expect immediate action.

-- 
Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
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