On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, John Fortin wrote:
> > [20:14] <macarena> For the other OSes I have no indication of status
> > ..... anyone tested the Windows-DirectX-Stuff ?
> >
> >
> > I can't, because I have no C-Compiler for Windows.
>
> Try
> mingw (http://www.mingw.org) or
>
> cygwin (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/)
> Both are win32 versions of the GNU toolchain.
TNX a lot for that pointers.
> > [20:14] <stefan> macarena: or did you mean GGI should be possible
> > whereever X is at home ?
> > [20:14] <akawaka> is windows support really important?
> > [20:14] <macarena> MacOSX has AFAIK not been tried yet, but I'd like
> > to see it.
> > [20:15] <smoke> i've tried running libggi in directx in windows NT
> > 3.51 once, but that didn't work out and i gave up; it didn't seem all
> > too interesting to me
> >
> >
> >
> > IIRC John tested it on Win9x with DirectX 5. WinNT has an
> > outdated DirectX 3.
> >
> There are 2 separate targets... One for NT4 and another for 95/98.
> However, the CVS repository seems incomplete
> and does not have them both.
>
> FYI, I was able to run XGGI with both versions
Great!
> >
> >
> > [20:15] <macarena> akawaka Yes - I think it will attract more people,
> > if you can just recompile aour app and be done with porting it.
> > [20:16] <Adamel> The DirectX stuff is very limited by the looks of
> > it, but I suppose John got it to work on his machine at least...
> >
> >
> >
> > AFAIR John said, that the directX-stuff, which is in CVS is outdated
> > in comparison to his directX-tree.
>
> See above
So could you commit your directX-tree into cvs, please?
I hope, that it doesn't brake anything as we plan to make a final
release...
>
> >
> >
> > I think, that's why people think, GGI is dead...
> >
> Also, Win32 people will not use it until it is clear that it is
> cross-platform/Generic. That is why I was interested in it. However,
> if the decision is really cross-platform/Generic meaning only linux/KGI,
> then I'm not.
I don't think so. As Andy said in the IRC, he prays the
portability... ;-)
Christoph Egger
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