From: chuck@ethereal.ru (Chuck Bogorad) Subject: Re: ntxlib works on Windows 95 3 Jan 1998 08:11:23 -0800 Message-ID: <01bd185f$6f986520$0100a8c0.cygnus.gnu-win32@hysteria.spb.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "gnu-win32" >> >Did you ever think about merging of libX11 and ntxlib? I.e. if environment >> >variable DISPLAY is not set, call ntxlib's gdi calls wrappers, and call X11 >> >code otherwise? >> Hey, what a great idea. All I have to do is download >> the X11 files, throw in xnt.h and ntxlib.c, run an >> overall make on all .c files, and play with the linker >> error messages. As a zeroeth approximation. >I also agree that merging ntxlib into X11 is a great idea. However, there is >something to be said about keeping a vanilla ntxlib which carries none of the >X11 overhead. Having the 2 configurations would be ideal. i'd suggest making 2 separate .dll's - one for X11 lib, another one for ntxlib. the program should load the one it needs. this way programs get smaller and updating the library gets easier. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".