I checked in a patch which seems to allow me to build Xvnc on RHEL 5 using the Xorg server 1.1 branch. Using this patch, I do:
git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/xserver xorg cd xorg git checkout origin/server-1_1-branch cd .. cp -r xorg/* xserver cd xserver patch -p1 <../xserver11.patch configure --disable-xvfb --disable-xnest --disable-xorg --disable-dmx --disable-xprint --disable-xorgcfg --disable-kdrive --disable-lbx --disable-xevie --disable-dri --enable-xdmcp --enable-composite --host i686-pc-linux-gnu --with-included-jpeg CFLAGS=-m32 CXXFLAGS=-m32 LDFLAGS=-m32 (NOTE: these flags were mostly lifted from the RealVNC RPM spec file on RHEL 5.) -------------------- I had to install the libxkbfile-devel RPM to avoid an error during configure. -------------------- I then had to modify hw/vnc/Makefile.am to remove the references to pixman. Otherwise I got an error during the build: make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/local/include/pixman-1/pixman.h', needed by `pixman.h'. Stop. (NOTE: Does anyone know why the build needs the Pixman includes? None of the code appears to use them.) I could also install the xulrunner-devel RPM and 'sudo ln -fs /usr/include/xulrunner-sdk-1.9/libpixman /usr/local/include/pixman-1' in order to avoid this error. However, best to remove the Pixman references if they aren't needed. -------------------- Now I ran into the following issue: vncHooks.cc:90: error: 'DevPrivateKey' does not name a type vncHooks.cc:91: error: 'DevPrivateKey' does not name a type I fixed this by adding the following patch: --- hw/vnc/vncHooks.cc (revision 3680) +++ hw/vnc/vncHooks.cc (working copy) @@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ static DevPrivateKey vncHooksScreenPrivateKey = &vncHooksScreenPrivateKey; static DevPrivateKey vncHooksGCPrivateKey = &vncHooksGCPrivateKey; #else +typedef void *DevPrivateKey; static int vncHooksScreenPrivateKeyIndex; static int vncHooksGCPrivateKeyIndex; static DevPrivateKey vncHooksScreenPrivateKey = &vncHooksScreenPrivateKeyIndex; However, I suspect this patch would break the Xorg 1.6 build. I'm wondering if there is a way to detect the 1.1 release and #ifdef around it. It doesn't appear to set the XORG_11 macro. -------------------- Now I ran into numerous problems regarding undefined functions "dixLookupPrivate()" and "dixRequestPrivate()" in vncHooks.cc. I assume these functions are only available in the later Xorg releases. I don't know of a way around this one. Adam Tkac wrote: > Well, X codebases differ version from version and it's impossible to > support all of them. If we decide that we would like to support huge > range of platforms then we will probably stuck with XFree86 and > building with the newer Xorg will be nearly impossible even for common > developers. > > Xorg 1.5, which is the least version which is currently supported, > requires reasonable new libraries and all X related things (like > proto-s). So you are not able to build Xvnc on RHEL5 as you tried. > > We have to decide which is the oldest distro which we should support. > > It is tested and it works fine. But as I wrote above you have to have > reasonably new libraries and X related things. > > Adam > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Tigervnc-devel mailing list Tigervnc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-devel
