3.12
Will there be Xaw.DLL, Xt.DLL and Xmu.DLL?
There are no plans for them at this pont. GCC is free software, and most
stuff written for it is also freely available. Recompile Xaw, Xt and Xmu if
you want. However, keep the following in mind:
"One of the biggest issues with X on Win32 is the moronic DLL format.
Specifically - it is not possible to export data from a Win32 DLL in a form
that can be used to statically initialize another global variable. Data
access from a DLL requires at least one pointer indirection, and hence
executable code. This is why X11R6 doesn't have DLLs for Xt/Xmu/Xaw (and
Motif) on Win32", quoted from XFree86-developers Mailing List - David E.
Wexelblat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Wed, 25 Mar 1998 10:08:27 -0500.
NB: See the mailing list page and the cygwin mailing list for discussions on
libtool, which is facing the same issue and may generate a successful
workaround. If that is done then you should have a relatively easy time
porting Xt/Xmu/Xaw.
That is what you need to read in FAQ at
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree
Suhaib
