On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, ch...@chriswareham.net wrote: > Apologies if this is a little too off topic, but I thought it might at > least be of interest to some list members. I'm currently working on a > 64 bit port of the XView libraries and clients > (http://xview.xenu.tk/cgi-bin/view). This is based on a version of > XView that includes as many of the third-party modifications were made > to Sun's original release of the code as can be found. > > My work so far has been to ANSI'fy the olgx library, which is the > graphics layer used by clients such as the olwm and olvwm window > managers. I'm currently ANSI'fying and cleaning up olwm. The hard task > is going to be making the variable argument lists in the xview library > itself work on 64 bit systems, since they rely on typedef that results > in code assuming 32 bit pointers ... > > Longer term, I'm going to suggest to the maintainer of the XView > repository that we include the SlingShot and UIT libraries that sat on > top of XView to provide extra widgets and a C++ API. I already have > cleaned up version of SlingShot, but it currently awaits the 64 bit > version of XView to see what further work is needed.
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