Re: [Ql-Users] uqlx-win32

2009-05-06 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message <4a011edb.4060...@dokos-gr.net>, Phoebus R. Dokos writes Hi Phoebus, I am sure that you are the person to do something with it ... but as you say it about having the time. Anyway ... interesting times we live in ... :-) Malcolm Cadman wrote: The problem is that making a runtim

Re: [Ql-Users] uqlx-win32

2009-05-06 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
Norman Dunbar wrote: > Evening Phoebus, > > Hi Norman, QT would be a good choice for the higher level as would GTK (Qt though just got stable bindings for mono... therefore I vote GTK -for the time being-). Of course porting the graphics part is the least of one's worries when porting to Windoze

Re: [Ql-Users] uqlx-win32

2009-05-06 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Phoebus, > The proper solution for uQLx is for the graphics parts to be abstracted > and maybe use SDL or something along the same lines, something that will > enable native compilation under Windoze, MacOS etc. That would most likely be QT - in my opinion of course, other opinions are ava

Re: [Ql-Users] uqlx-win32

2009-05-05 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
Malcolm Cadman wrote: The problem is that making a runtime version of cygwin is not entirely straightforward as it used to be in the old days :-( I am sure that If I sat down, I could probably find the way, but to be honest with you I didn't have enough time as it were and didn't want to mess with

Re: [Ql-Users] uqlx-win32

2009-05-05 Thread P Witte
Id be interested in such a package. Had a go with Cygwin/uQLx some time ago but had only limited success. Getting rid of the debris was a pain, iirc. Per Dilwyn Jones wrote: I did get an earlier version running once, of uQLx-Win32, on a WIN98 machine, with the help of Phoebus at that time.

Re: [Ql-Users] uqlx-win32

2009-05-05 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message , Dilwyn Jones writes I did get an earlier version running once, of uQLx-Win32, on a WIN98 machine, with the help of Phoebus at that time. I think this is the point - without help it can't be got running if you don't know about Cygwin environment. As only 6 files are needed, su

Re: [Ql-Users] uqlx-win32

2009-05-04 Thread Dilwyn Jones
I'm wondering if cygz11-6.dll is in a developer version or in in an archived file which has to be user-expanded after download or something? Actually, the mailing list archive shows a message from Stephen Meech on this list back in 2004 with this exact problem. If Stephen is still on the list,

Re: [Ql-Users] uqlx-win32

2009-05-04 Thread Stephen
On 04/05/2009 17:29, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I'm wondering if cygz11-6.dll is in a developer version or in in an archived file which has to be user-expanded after download or something? Actually, the mailing list archive shows a message from Stephen Meech on this list back in 2004 with this exact

Re: [Ql-Users] uqlx-win32

2009-05-04 Thread Dilwyn Jones
You'll need the Cygwin distribution to provide the Linux-like environment: www.cygwin.com Be careful, it can be a huge download of 50MB with 6,478 files to install as I found to my cost...oh to know what I'm doing with Linux and Cygwin :-(( Downloading everything by the sound of it! ... Go on,

Re: [Ql-Users] uqlx-win32

2009-05-04 Thread Dilwyn Jones
I did get an earlier version running once, of uQLx-Win32, on a WIN98 machine, with the help of Phoebus at that time. I think this is the point - without help it can't be got running if you don't know about Cygwin environment. As only 6 files are needed, surely it would make more sense to just p

Re: [Ql-Users] uqlx-win32

2009-05-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
Norman Dunbar wrote: > Ok, Cygwin as far as I remember gives you the opportunity to do a > download only and to save the files in a given location. That is the > best option. It doesn't install anything. Ok, I'll try again! Once downloaded, yo can then run the installer again and tell it (but it

Re: [Ql-Users] uqlx-win32

2009-05-04 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message , Dilwyn Jones writes Hi Dilwyn, I did get an earlier version running once, of uQLx-Win32, on a WIN98 machine, with the help of Phoebus at that time. These days this would be a good candidate for being put onto a CD ROM or a Memory Stick, if the Cygwin is able to be distributed

Re: [Ql-Users] uqlx-win32

2009-05-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Dilwyn, >> You'll need the Cygwin distribution to provide the Linux-like >> environment: www.cygwin.com >> Be careful, it can be a huge download of 50MB with 6,478 files to >> install as I found to my cost...oh to know what I'm doing with Linux >> and Cygwin :-(( Downloading everything by

Re: [Ql-Users] uqlx-win32

2009-05-03 Thread Dilwyn Jones
I've put the latest version of uQLx for 32-bit Windows from Phoebus Dokos onto my website. You'll need the Cygwin distribution to provide the Linux-like environment: www.cygwin.com Be careful, it can be a huge download of 50MB with 6,478 files to install as I found to my cost...oh to know what

Re: [Ql-Users] uqlx-win32

2009-05-03 Thread Dilwyn Jones
l me what I'm doing wrong... -- Dilwyn Jones - Original Message - From: "Phoebus R. Dokos" To: Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 2:02 PM Subject: [Ql-Users] uqlx-win32 Hi all, just dropping a line to say that I found some time to fiddle with uQLx-win32 and although I did not manage t

[Ql-Users] uqlx-win32

2009-05-03 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
Hi all, just dropping a line to say that I found some time to fiddle with uQLx-win32 and although I did not manage to recompile it with the newest cygwin, I was however perfectly able to boot it properly (again TCP/IP is not working but I guess after Richard releases the newest version of the sourc