Native win32 port of libX11 using MinGW - help pls

[Jeetu Golani]

Hey guys,

Just found this :

 http://www.labf.com/xdk/port.html

It's a company that had an Xlib native port for windows.......it's
closed source binary though...I think X falls under the MIT license
right?? am not sure if the license allows them to close it or
not....just curious.

Anyways I don't want to use a closed library....also would like this
to be available to all in source form.....well at least I know once
again that it can be done and has been done.

Bye for now

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Jeetu Golani <jeetu.golani at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  Thanks Jamie for writing in...yup the links you've sent may just have
>  some info I could use.
>
>  For now what I'm doing is trying to apply the defines generated during
>  a configure on linux i.e. the config.h generated to the source files
>  and statically linking it to my test Xclient - earlier I was able to
>  get the code to link and the Xclient to function within windows but it
>  performed a little flaky - I needed to comment out a few lines within
>  XOpenDisplay....it works with one Xserver but doesn't work with
>  others...that sort of thing.....I'm guessing that the code execution
>  path isn't complete because i hadn't given any of the defines so
>  things like XCB never got compiled in......once I have something that
>  works - the defines - then maybe I can work on writing my own makefile
>  which generates a dll
>
>  Any suggestions on which defines you think a Windows port should have
>  would be great......more references to the win32 build environment
>  which at one time existed (i think) would be great......will look into
>  the Xming links too.
>
>  Pl feel free to throw in any thoughts :)
>
>  Bye for now
>
>
>
>
>  On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Jamie Guinan <guinan at bluebutton.com> wrote:
>  > On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Jeetu Golani wrote:
>  >
>  >  > Hi,
>  >  >
>  >  > Thanks for responding back....am at a hairs end trying to figure this out
>  >  >
>  >  > >>Do you know
>  >  >
>  >  > >>http://www.jcraft.com/weirdx/index.html
>  >  >
>  >  > Anders from what I understand this is a java X-server.....what i need
>  >  > is the client library. I'd also not prefer Java nor Cygwin for that
>  >  > matter because of speed. I'd like native code and I know it's been
>  >  > done before - probably in Release 6.9.0.
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  > >>Have you checked out Xming?
>  >  >
>  >  > >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming
>  >  >
>  >  > Jamie - yes, again this is an Xserver.....i don't think it has Xlib
>  >  > which is required only by clients from what i understand.....also the
>  >  > maintained of this project used to be Alexander Gottwald who in the
>  >  > end of 2004 has mentioned that he's added mingw support to
>  >  > libX11.....its just that I can't seem to find it.....it probably got
>  >  > taken off during the autoconf migration later or something like that.
>  >
>  >  Hi,
>  >
>  >  Yeah, I kinda realized after I replied, that you want to build mingw32
>  >  clients, not just run a server.
>  >
>  >  The current maintainer [1] has some info here,
>  >
>  >   http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/
>  >
>  >  and patches here,
>  >
>  >   http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingCode/
>  >   http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingCode/Xclients/
>  >
>  >  I don't see any patches for "desktop" type apps there (widget sets),
>  >  but maybe some of the patches will be helpful to you.
>  >
>  >  Regards,
>  >  -Jamie
>  >
>  >  [1] See the "Support" section at the bottom of the page, he says
>  >  he has limited time for email support, and I totally understand
>  >  that.  But you might want to check out his posts to this list,
>  >
>  >  http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=colin.harrison++site%3Alists.freedesktop.org%2F&btnG=Search
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  > As I said earlier.....I've made a test Xclient and tried compiling the
>  >  > C source files and statically linking the object files to it. The code
>  >  > works....however it doesn't function perfectly - will work on some
>  >  > xservers and won't on others.....I'm guessing all of that is because I
>  >  > do have any defines put in (the execution code path isn't
>  >  > optimal)........but this proves that the code itself runs under
>  >  > win32....just got to figure out the build environment.
>  >  >
>  >  > Would appreciate any pointers.
>  >  >
>  >  > Bye for now
>  >  >
>  >  > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Jamie Guinan <guinan at bluebutton.com> wrote:
>  >  > > On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Jeetu Golani wrote:
>  >  > >
>  >  > >  > Hi everyone,
>  >  > >  >
>  >  > >  >  I've been trying to port libX11 to win32 since I'd like to have
>  >  > >  >  xclients running natively under windows. I'd prefer not using Cygwin
>  >  > >  >  and to have this native.
>  >  > >
>  >  > >  Have you checked out Xming?
>  >  > >
>  >  > >   http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming
>  >  > >
>  >  > >  Regards,
>  >  > >  -Jamie
>  >  > >
>  >
>  >
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