From:	sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject:	RE: ntxlib works on Windows 95
2 Jan 1998 23:28:31 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<01BD1830.3D8B7B50.cygnus.gnu-win32@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru>
To:	"gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>,
	"'vischne AT ibm DOT net'"
	<vischne AT ibm DOT net>

vischne AT ibm DOT net wrote:
> The reason I say this is that libX11 doesn't have a `main' entry point and
> assumes, Unix-style, that the X-program calling libX11 will have a `main'.
> 
> ntxlib, on the other hand, uses WinMain to get hInstance, without which
> you cannot generate Windows with CreateWindow calls.  WinMain gets
> the argc and argv parameters and passes them to a call on main().
> 

WinMain() isn't neccessary for proper operation. It's easy to call

hInstance = GetModuleHandle(); in ntxlib's XOpenDisplay() implementation.

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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
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