From: "Johan Venter" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: <8D53104ECD0CD211AF4000A0C9D60AE30145EC87 AT probe-2 DOT acclaim-euro DOT net> Subject: Re: X and GNOME ports. Lines: 29 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:52:01 +1000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.40.82.115 X-Trace: newsfeeds.bigpond.com 930124969 203.40.82.115 (Wed, 23 Jun 1999 18:02:49 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 18:02:49 EST Organization: Telstra BigPond Internet Services (http://www.bigpond.com) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com >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? -- Johan Venter ICQ 3643877 Visit The TPU DJGPP Interest Group: http://surf.to/djgppig