On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, John Fortin wrote:
> > Sort of. I have some code in my local degas/ tree here at work
> > which allows to run the DirectX target on Linux using WINE. It's a pretty
> > hideous mess at the moment, but I'll try to clean it up such that it is
> > suitable for committing soon. The DirectX target will need to be upgraded
> > to conform to DX7 for this, though. Any objections, John F.? I think
> > that requiring users to upgrade to DX7 (not 8) is not unreasonable. 6.1
> > is pretty outdated these days....
>
> I was actually thinking of doing that. Just be aware that it makes the
> code/libraries unusable for WinNT 4.
Granted. Perhaps we need to subclass the DX target for DX3, DX6+
and Wine? Kind of like the X/Xlib/DGA target set is structured.
> I also have to decide if I want to provide libs for MSVC++ and gcc. I know
> that your goal is to run under Wine, but I want to see it used for Windows
> on Windows.
Sure. I just though that, if the DX target worked under
Linux/Wine, it would expand the developer base. DX is not a simple
target environment....
> I believe I finally have time to work on this again, so Jon, if you have
> source, could you send it to me...
I'll send you some diffs.
Jon
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