From:	"deckerben" <deckerben AT freenet DOT de>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Discontinuing build attempt on LibXemu
Date:	Fri, 19 Jul 2002 22:33:43 +0200
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Hello,

I decided before I would go ahead and wipe the project out, I would explain
why I am discontinuing my effort to port libxemu to DJGPP v2, in case anyone
has an idea:

At the heart of libXemu is the GRX (v1!) graphics engine. All calls to this
libary are, naturally in GRX 1 style and apparently very different from v2.
Unfortunately, I do not have the time to sit and work out the GRX V1->V2
command matrix.
This is probably the greatest hurdle, and I just don't have that kind of
time.
A better option would be a simple port of GRX v1 to DJGPP 2, but I can't
seem to find one.
After *extensive* searching, I did finally come accross some source code for
it, but it was too Linux dependent to give me a good feeling for the time
investment needed.

The FVWM portion did build nicely, but I need LibX11 before I can do
anything with the object files.

Ben

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