Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Michel Bardiaux
Eliah Kagan wrote: On 11/9/05, Mehnaz Farooqui wrote: Hi, can you pls tell me how I can port existing x windows application to win32? Is there any tool that does this or do I have to replace the X11 API with win32 API manually? Thanks, Mehnaz Since there are X servers for Windows (like

RE: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Rajagopalan, Karthik
I don't think there is any windows sdk api supporting Motif stuff. But we do have OpenGl for Windows. Hence the option is to use Cygwin/Hummingbird/Winaxe as far as I know. Regards, Karthik -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mehnaz

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Michel Bardiaux wrote: Eliah Kagan wrote: There is of course a cygwin port of the X11 *client* libraries, but what if you cant put your app under GPL? Is there a pure mingw port of the X11 client lib? The X11 client libraries aren't GPL. -- Thomas E. Dickey

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Michel Bardiaux
Thomas Dickey wrote: On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Michel Bardiaux wrote: Eliah Kagan wrote: There is of course a cygwin port of the X11 *client* libraries, but what if you cant put your app under GPL? Is there a pure mingw port of the X11 client lib? The X11 client libraries aren't GPL. No, but

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Michel Bardiaux wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Michel Bardiaux wrote: Eliah Kagan wrote: There is of course a cygwin port of the X11 *client* libraries, but what if you cant put your app under GPL? Is there a pure mingw port of the X11 client lib?

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Darryl
At 04:09 10/11/2005, you wrote: Hi, can you pls tell me how I can port existing x windows application to win32? Is there any tool that does this or do I have to replace the X11 API with win32 API manually? Thanks, Mehnaz We have ported large X apps from Unix / Linux onto Cygwin using a

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Michel Bardiaux
Thomas Dickey wrote: On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Michel Bardiaux wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Michel Bardiaux wrote: Eliah Kagan wrote: There is of course a cygwin port of the X11 *client* libraries, but what if you cant put your app under GPL? Is there a pure mingw port of

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Michel Bardiaux wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: I assume you refer to the cygwin FAQ: I'm aware of it. Looks like you read this, but still don't understand it. (Perhaps you should discuss this on the regular cygwin mailing list). But I am not sure it can be applied to a

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Michel Bardiaux
Thomas Dickey wrote: On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Michel Bardiaux wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: I assume you refer to the cygwin FAQ: I'm aware of it. Looks like you read this, but still don't understand it. Possibly. It is also possible I *do* understand it, just not the same way you do. What is

RE: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Richard Campbell
Michel Bardiaux wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: (Perhaps you should discuss this on the regular cygwin mailing list). Not really possible, the trafic there is way too much for the time I have. Perhaps you should discuss this on the cygwin-licensing list, which is: 1) Designed specifically

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Michel Bardiaux
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 10 12:15, Michel Bardiaux wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Michel Bardiaux wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Michel Bardiaux wrote: Eliah Kagan wrote: There is of course a cygwin port of the X11 *client* libraries, but

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Darryl
So, I was right (rather than 'disregardable'). And that's from the horse's mouth, so to speak. Which brings back my query: is there a free but not GPL version of the X client libraries for Win32? Microsoft's Software Services For UNIX 3.5 available for free download. As I wrote earlier it

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Michel Bardiaux
Darryl wrote: So, I was right (rather than 'disregardable'). And that's from the horse's mouth, so to speak. Which brings back my query: is there a free but not GPL version of the X client libraries for Win32? Microsoft's Software Services For UNIX 3.5 available for free download. As I

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Michel Bardiaux wrote: So, I was right (rather than 'disregardable'). And that's from the horse's mouth, so to speak. Which brings back my query: is there a free but not GPL version of the X client libraries for Win32? rofl I have a better suggestion: since you don't

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 10 11:19, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Michel Bardiaux wrote: So, I was right (rather than 'disregardable'). And that's from the horse's mouth, so to speak. Which brings back my query: is there a free but not GPL version of the X client libraries for Win32? rofl I

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I'm really wondering what you're up to. Michel's choice of words might You shouldn't have to wonder if you read my response rather than cut/paste from a boilerplate response regarding the cygwin dll. The X library source is not GPL. Likewise

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Brian Dessent
Thomas Dickey wrote: The X library source is not GPL. Likewise ncurses. Stating that it is effectively GPL is at best misleading, since it is possible for someone to take the same source to a different place and use it without cygwin. The word effectively might be misleading to you but it's

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: The X library source is not GPL. Likewise ncurses. Stating that it is effectively GPL is at best misleading, since it is possible for someone to take the same source to a different place and use it without cygwin. The word

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 09:53:54AM -0500, Richard Campbell wrote: Michel Bardiaux wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: (Perhaps you should discuss this on the regular cygwin mailing list). Not really possible, the trafic there is way too much for the time I have. Perhaps you should discuss this on the

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Eliah Kagan
On 11/10/05, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Michel Bardiaux wrote: Eliah Kagan wrote: There is of course a cygwin port of the X11 *client* libraries, but what if you cant put your app under GPL? Is there a pure mingw port of the X11 client lib? The X11 client libraries

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Eliah Kagan wrote: For the record (especially since issues of attributed accuracy are being raised later in the thread) I did not write the following: hmm - go back and count the marks (I didn't misquote anything, as your text illustrates well enough ;-) -- Thomas E.

RE: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Richard Campbell
Oh, please don't. This is a simple concept. There is nothing complicated here. If you build your program using Cygwin's gcc then your program is GPLed regardless of whether it is using X11 libraries. -m-no-cygwin? http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#CanIUseGPLToolsForNF -Richard

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 04:59:00PM -0500, Richard Campbell wrote: Oh, please don't. This is a simple concept. There is nothing complicated here. If you build your program using Cygwin's gcc then your program is GPLed regardless of whether it is using X11 libraries. -m-no-cygwin? In this