From:	"Kelly Harrelson" <ksharrel@!nospam!mindspring.com>
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Subject:	Re: DJGPP: the future is... forward?
Date:	Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:22:32 -0400
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Eli Zaretskii wrote in message ...
>
>On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Arron Shutt wrote:
>
>> 3. X
>>
>> Someone has mention porting X, and porting Gnome as well would give
Dos/Win
>> users the advantages of using the API for porting across software using
>> X/Gnome...
>
>There used to be a port of X library and of a window manager to DJGPP
>v1.x; the URL where the sources are can be found in the FAQ (section
>22.3).  Using that port as a starting point for v2.x port would be one
>approach.  The main portions that need to be reworked are the
>low-level graphics support (v1.x remapped the VGA memory to a constant
>address, which isn't possible in v2.x) and the event queue that
>combines keyboard and mouse events (v1.x had special support for this
>in the go32 DOS extender).
>
>Given the progress made in projects like Allegro and GRX, I'd think
>that the effort of reporting X to DJGPP v2 should not be too large.
>
>My personal opinion is that a DJGPP port of X would be a *tremendous*
>step forward, since a lot of free software that uses GUI relies on X
>and X-based packages.

The X lib port version that worked with v1.x that Eli mentioned above used
an old version of the GRX library.  Sometime ago I looked I trying to port
this to DJGPP v2 and the latest GRX but didn't get very far.  It was further
complicated by the fact that the X lib port was incomplete and buggy and
only worked with a few sample apps.

I agree with Eli though, having ports of the X libs to DJGPP would be
very beneficial and I'd be willing to help anyone who wanted to try.

-Shane

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