Building Xorg on Mac OS X 10.6.2?

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Wed Feb 10 13:13:11 PST 2010


Not off hand - you should able to see in the configure.ac which servers
are built for which platforms.

	-alan-

Deron Johnson wrote:
> Hi Alan.
> 
> Thanks for the response. Do you know whether it builds Xvfb? That is the binary I am primarily
> interested in.
> 
> On Feb 10, 2010, at 11:14 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 
>> Deron Johnson wrote:
>>> Is it possible to build Xorg on Mac OS X 10.6.2? If so, how hard is it?
>>> Are there instructions for this anywhere? Or is it more trouble than
>>> it is worth and I should just stick to Linux?
>> Have you checked out http://xquartz.macosforge.org/ ?   (We link to it from
>> the MacOS page in the X.Org docs at http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/ )
>>
>> Though it will build the Xquartz server from the xorg-server sources,
>> with the DDX for running on top of the native MacOS window system, not the
>> Xorg server, since you can't directly control the graphics hardware that
>> MacOS is already using.
>>
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>> 	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
>> 	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering




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