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Date:	Sat, 25 Dec 2004 11:11:01 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: X11-only expectk
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On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 02:50:52AM -0500, Jean-Sebastien Trottier wrote:
>See inline...
>
>On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 07:00:33AM +0200, Vladimir Levijev wrote:
>> 
>> Hello Sebastien,
>> 
>> > Hi Ariel,
>> >
>> > If you can bare with me a couple days, I can provide you with the
>> > necessary patches to build a X11-only expectk...
>> 
>> I'm really interested in these patches. I managed to compile expectk, but it 
>> was kind of a quick hack and I get segfault running it. So if you already 
>> have it, X11 version would work perfectly for me. 
>
>Cygwin is installed on my laptop... unfortunately I'm having awful power
>supply problems with it and it keeps shutting down on me... Once that's
>fixed I'll be able to get it to you...
>
>> > However, the whole solution that I'm working on (Totally transparent
>> > Win32 & X11 Tk) will take some time as I'm pretty low on bandwidth these
>> > days.
>> 
>> I understand this is about W11 library solution I read on the cygwin-apps 
>> thread. This is nice.
>
>Actually, I've been working on using Tk's own Win32 GDI implementation,
>not the W11 library... This way (once I get it working properly) support
>should be minimal.
>
>The plan:
>    - Compile Tcl using the unix sub-dir with minimal cygwin
>      compatibility changes... The only big change is to the stub
>      definitions to be able to include both Unix and Win32 functions.
>    - Compile Tk using X11 library (unix sub-dir) --> cygtk8.4X.dll
>    - Compile Tk using Win32 GDI (win sub-dir)    --> cygtk8.4W.dll
>    - Create a wrapper/stub dll that loads the right GUI-specific
>      library at runtime                          --> cygtk8.4.dll
>    - Anything else is just child's play from here... any other
>      application can just compile generically.

And, here's how you officially get your changes into cygwin:

     - Verify that your changes work with insight.
     - Submit your changes to the insight mailing list.
     - Upon acceptance propose taking over maintenance of the tcltk
       package.

cgf

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