John Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As alot of you probably know, I've been working on a Win32 port of GGI.
> A good portion is done, and I have been successful in getting XGGI to
> run on Win95/98/NT.
>
> The current GGI sources are very Linux oriented, as they should be.
Huh? They aren't and they shouldn't. They aren't even UNIX oriented.
Some targets and inputlibs contain code which are specific to the
subsystems they are intended to drive, but that's natural.
> However, quite a bit of the source code is worthless for Win32
> platforms.
And it is not compiled on win32 either, so there is no problem.
> There are also places where there are just plain
> incompatibilities. select() for unix and win32 are very different,
And I've already said that LibGII will be adapted for win32 as soon
as someone with skills in win32 input handling tells us what we
should use instead, or better still sends patches that implements
it.
> win32 has no fork,
fork() is not used for anything important.
> I'd like to propose the following.... A seperate project, WinGGI, and
> source tree based on the current GGI tree, devoted towards Win32
> platforms. The basic libggi/ libgii api would stay the same.
We really want win32 support and have wanted so for a long time,
and well-written code which helps us achieve this will be included
as soon as we receive it. We welcome any new developers, win32
hackers and others who want to help improve GGI code. There is
absolutely no reason to have a separate source tree for win32.
> I would like to see some additions such as Joystick and sound support.
There already is joystick support, and writing a joystick inputlib
for win32 shouldn't be harder than any other inputlib.
As for sound it is out of the scope of this project, but Wouter's
LibGSI is already there if you want a nice sound library.
//Marcus
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