Very Computer

Can anybody give me any insight as to how tuff it would be to port
an Xwindows app from LInux to Dos or Windows??

Tnx,

Tim Olmstead

I'm not sure how tuff it would be. Why would anyone do that kind
of tuff anyway?

<smirk>

--jf

Practice, good karma -- or money. There are packages in the li/uniX world that
you could port, sell and support for a good profit.

There are a couple of Xlib emulations for WinDOS: here's some discussion from
a djgpp list (names/addresses lost in time) on one (with maybe enough clues to
find it):

Quote:>Many thanks for porting Xlib to PC. I have used and enjoyed it much.
>I am a Computer Grpahics teacher and it serves as a way to teach X using
>a simple PC.

>Now for the goodies.
>New X libs added to xlibemu:

>libXt.a - the famous X toolkit
>libXext.a - some extensions
>libXi.a - X input extensions
>libXmu - CMU toolkit
>libXaw3d - the 3D version of AW toolkit

>THIS IS A BETA RELEASE JUST TO ANNOUNCE THE SOFTWARE.
>MANY PROBLEMS HAVE YET TO BE SOLVED.
>HELP IS WELCOME!

>xlibemu was modified because some functions were missing.
>All the modifications are delimited by #ifdef GO32 ... #endif
>directives. One new file added (xreadsen.c).
>The Xt sources were also slightly modified (for fvwm support and other
>reasons).

>The file names of all those lib' sources, includes and so on have been
>converted to DOS, but some editing of some source files was needed to
>cope with new names.

>With all these I have been able to compile and run several programs:

>xmine - like Windows Minesweeper (not yet 100%, I need help)
>ico - simple X demo
>maze - simple X demo
>bez - a Bezier curve demo program

>bez uses another lib (libsx.a) which I managed to build over libXaw3d
>and the others, although not yet fully tested...

>Please get all the stuff in pub/PC/X to have a look:
>xapps.exe       - the mentioned demos (sources)
>xbins.exe       - demos
>xincs.exe       - include dir with all headers
>xlib031.arj     - new version of xlibemu
>xlibs.exe       - the lib dir with all libs
>xsrcs.exe       - the src with all lib sources

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