From:	"Johan Venter" <jventer AT writeme DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject:	Re: X and GNOME ports.
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Date:	Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:52:01 +1000
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>No matter how it is done, though, this will not exactly be a trivial
>porting effort :-)
>
>
> Shawn Hargreaves.

This is a reality we all have to face if we want to make it happen.
Just a few points though:

1. Does Cygwin not implement all the 'hard' parts of Unix (at least at a very basic
level), such as fork()?

2. I don't use Cygwin very much (although I do have it installed), nor do I have access to
the current XFree86 code (or rather, I don't know where to find it). Would someone be kind
enough to direct me to it and I'll see how far a compilation with cygwin would get.

3. Does X use a lot of libraries?

4. I realise to port something like GNOME, we would need to port the GTK library. Can
anyone estimate the amount of changes the source would need to be compiled with a
Unix-layer-emulator like Cygwin?

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