From: gesteld@se.bel.alcatel.be (Dirk Vangestel) Subject: RE: XFree ported to Windows NT? 27 Feb 1997 00:55:20 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <3.0.16.19970227090641.312f6e74.cygnus.gnu-win32@btmpf3.se.bel.alcatel.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: gesteld@btmpf3.se.bel.alcatel.be X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (16) Original-To: "'gnu-win32@cygnus.com'" Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com At 07:41 PM 2/26/97 -0500, Castro, Edison M. (NJAOST) wrote: >There is not a free source code implementation of X11 server for Win32. >I have been working on a porting effort with several mishaps. Initially >I tried a Direct X port using VC 4.0, but found that I would loose Cut >and paste and all the other niceties that make Windows the premier >desktop environment. >I, finally decided on a direct port (Matching X11 calls to Win32 based >functions). What did you start from? XFree or standard X? I'm not sure what you mean about loosing cut/paste... If you want to transfer data from X to Windows I imagine you would run into a few problems, yes. If you really want to port all X11 functions to Win32 function, I wish you the best of luck, you'll need it :-) I would prefer running XFree on top of gnuwin32. This way I have a normal Unix environment on my Windows box and I can compile and run X applications without having to adapt them (ok, I'm dreaming here... Somebody pinch me :-) Dirk - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".