Hi, I am trying to compile Xdmx (which is based on XFree86) on ia-64 machine and I'm facing the following problem which seems to be general to X servers.
The following comment is from X11/X.h header file: /* * _XSERVER64 must ONLY be defined when compiling X server sources on * systems where unsigned long is not 32 bits, must NOT be used in * client or library code. */ What happens is that on 64-bit platforms some types, like XID, Atom and some others are declared to be unsigned int (32bit) on the X server side BUT declared as unsigned long (64bit) on the X client side !! What happens when the X server should also call libX11, like Xdmx proxy? There is a mismatch, the server sends 32bit object to some libX11 function which expect for 64bit object !! Does anyone tried to face this problem before ? Does anyone know what is the root reason for this typing mismatch ? I have tried to compile libX11 while defining _XSERVER64 (which makes the above types to be declared as 32-bit, like on the server) but it did not work well - I had memory alignment and allocation problems :( Thanks, _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
