Arnaud Desitter wrote: > Harold L Hunt II wrote: >> Richard Campbell wrote: >>>Arnaud Desitter wrote: >>>>http://www.lesstif.org/INSTALL.html >>> >>> "On windows using Cygwin, U/WIN or Interix, LessTif must be built as >>> static libraries. Because, 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." >>> >>> If yes, these rules have been changing. Brian, isn't this what you >>> were specifically working on recently? >>> I was just trying to help pick up the pieces.
Ralf Habacker and Harold L Hunt II fixed the shared Xt problem here: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-10/msg00173.html Then, Zhangrong Huang and Harold L Hunt II fixed lesstif here: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-10/msg00347.html > > The statement in quotes above is now misleading and completely > > incorrect. We are distributing *only* a shared version of LessTif on > > Cygwin now. The various problems mentioned in the quote all have > > work-arounds, some of which were already used by OS/2; we enabled those > > work-arounds and adding one or two more of our own and the shared > > LessTif library compiles and works fine now. > > I'll take an action item to push these changes back upstream to lesstif, but don't expect any particular time line. > Fill free to contact the lesstif guys to fix it. > I did, here: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-10/msg00291.html They have not, yet. I guess I need to supply an actual documentation patch. Again, I'll put it on my list. But, don't expect immediate action. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444 _______________________________________________ Lesstif mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://terror.hungry.com/mailman/listinfo/lesstif
