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From:	accmdq AT mail DOT telepac DOT pt (Antonio Costa / Dulce Quelhas)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: GRX20 and Xlibemu
Date:	Fri, 09 Aug 1996 15:50:03 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Cagud . Vincent Joseph D. wrote:
>> I suspect that these libraries are only v1-compatible. Is there 
>> an updated version of the libs and if so, can you tell me where?
>That's correct, they was not updated AFAIK since v1.x.  But I don't
>believe you should need a lot of work to make them compile with v2. 
>Changing the paths of directories is not a big deal after all.

Hi. I was the guy who adapted Ulrich Leodolter's work (the first
Xlibemu) to the version available at asterix.inescn.pt or
groucho.idt-isep.ipp.pt (in Portugal).

The main problem with Xlibemu is not DJGPP v2.0, but GRX 2.0.
The new GRX 2.0 version is so different than GRX 1.x that many things
were completely broken, particularly font stuff!

As I am not aware of the changes, I am not able to do it...
I guess that somebody with a good understanding of GRX 2.0 and the
diffs related to GRX 1.x could do it easily!?

>The upside of making Xlib compile with DJGPP v2 is of course that 
>everybody can benefit from it, and thus has a great value in itself.  If 
>you do succeed in this, please consider uploading the converted library 
>to one of the sites mentioned in the DJGPP FAQ list (section 22.6).

Sure, it would be nice.

>> Or do I have to re-install version 1 again to compile that GNU Emacs 
>> thingie...
>I don't recommend this ``solution''.  DJGPP v1.x is no longer actively 
>supported, so if you encounter a problem for which there is no known 
>solution or work-around, you are on your own.

Neither do I. But I don't know if it is possible to use old GRX 1.x
with DJGPP v2.0 -- is it? This could be a reasonable workaround...

>Note that AFAIK nobody has yet tried to build Emacs with XWindows support
>under DJGPP v2.  The support for this exists, but since Xlib wasn't yet
>ported to v2, it was never built this way.  If you have any problems
>building Emacs with X under DJGPP v2 (assuming you'll decide to convert
>Xlib to v2), please let me know, and I'll try to help. 

I will also help as much as I can, of course :-)

Regards,
Antonio Costa.
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