Finally there is a stable FIRST edition of a WIN32-X11 server is available at http://sources.redhat.com/win32-x11. NOTE: This is the first time and last time I am cc'ing message to Cygwin/Xfree list because I do not know how many have subscribed to win32-x11 list and how many of you are aware of a MSVC project for X11. Future mails/posts concerning this project will be posted only to win32-x11 list at http://sources.redhat.com/win32-x11. The server is stable, although it needs much more work. I might release the next version within a couple of weeks which would have more extensions built in. I need to clean up the source code. At present I build the xc directory in bit and pieces to get X-server compiled. Imakefiles needs a lot of patching which would allow "nmake World.Win32" to build the entire X11R6.5.11 tree with Win32 X-server, using MSVC 6.x. I will most probably upload the clean code base to CVS repository of win32-x11 this weekend. Download win32-x11.tar.bz2 from the same server you downloaded this archive. 1)Unpack win32-x11.tar.bz2 into \XWIN32 2) Delete XWin.exe and startx.bat from XWin32\bin 3) Put XWin32.exe and startx.bat from this archive into \XWIn32\bin 4) From a DOS shell type startx THINGS TO-DO: ============ 1) Build all the most common extension. At present server supports only SHAPE extension 2) Build SGI GLX extension. 3) Clean up code of SGI GLU library from SGI OpenGL SI (http://oss.sgi.com/projects) so it compiles with MSVC (Visual C++). SGI GL library compile. ANYONE WILLING TO HELP CLEAN UP SGI GLU code for MSVC? 4) Far fetched plan - no where close to reality at the moment unless I have some serious contributors - Implement a Windows manager to integrate X into Win32 Desktop for multi-windowing. THIS SERVER DOES NOT USE ANY CODE FROM XFREE86. IT IS A PURE X11R6.5.11 BASED FROM X.ORG. NONE OF THE EXECUTABLE OR LIBRARY USE CYGWIN1.DLL THEREFORE NO XTERM, XDM AND LBX (LIBPROXY). Suhaib
