On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 08:21:41AM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote: > > I now see the XFree86 stuff probably was not designed to be using > > WIN32 this > > way. So, perhaps as far as XFree86 is concerned it *is* > > spurious. (But the > > branch on WIN32 *is* in Xos.h.) > > > > BTW *is* it possible to build an X client using the XFree86 and LessTif > > libraries with Visual C++?
It's probably possible, but you'd need to undef some things like WIN32, and possibly others. > > I have been doing this using the Hummingbird Exceed X and Motif libraries, > > but I would like to consider changing to XFree86 and LessTif. (Open Motif > > would be even better, but it isn't "open" for Windows.) The same programs > > build with Open Motif or LessTif on Linux. It would be a lot > > easier to use > > stuff that more resembles UNIX as XFree86 does. And it would be nicer to > > use the "same" stuff on all platforms. > > > > An alternative is to use the Cygwin compiler (gcc). This been more > > successful. Then, WIN32 is not defined, but there are some other > > problems. That would be the best approach, but what other problems are you seeing ? Alan.
