From: gesteld@se.bel.alcatel.be (Dirk Vangestel)
Subject: Re: precompiled X11 libs
3 Feb 1997 00:56:26 -0800
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At 04:58 PM 1/31/97 -0500, Joe Marzot wrote:
>does this mean my X apps will now port and run on NT without a
>commercial X server? what's to stop the XFree 86 server from running
>under cygwin?

All XFree86 servers use the video hardware directly. A new server will
be required which uses a Windows-compatible manner to access the video
hardware... I'm thinking of using DirectX for this purpose, but I have
yet to get DirectX programs to compile (I'm a bit pressed for time at
the moment). If anyone has a better idea, please let me know...
Oh, and I'm not making promises that there will ever be a Win32 XFree,
but we are looking into it :-)

Dirk

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