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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 16:36:59 +0200 (IST)
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On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, deckerben wrote:

> It may be possible to hack an Xfree layer on top of Allegro (just for the
> SVGA/VGA facilities).

An Xlib port could use Allegro as its low-level graphics layer, but you'd 
still need to port the higher level X code.

> Do you know if anyone has had success porting X emacs
> to Cygwin (...uuuhhhhh :-( using the Xfree libraries?

Yes, there's a Cygwin port of XFree86.  But that's irrelevant to the 
DJGPP port of Emacs, since you cannot link DJGPP programs with Cygwin 
libraries--they use two incompatible binary formats.