On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Milos Cvetanovic wrote: > details about the project, but my question is how could I compile Xserver > and make it work under DPMI (DOS protected mode). I saw some docs related
I have no idea why anybody in their right mind would want to do that ;) (PHB request, maybe?) But, in general, if you want to port anything to DOS these days, you want to use DJGPP (www.delorie.com/djgpp). I guess you already have an X application that "must" run on a machine that "must" run DOS for some "reason". Maybe because of a special driver to strange hardware or because it is running some embedded software? About the only reason I can think of for running DOS (or an open source clone) is if the hardware is wimpy or if you need extreme stability or extremely well-defined and quick responses to whatever your hardware is doing -- and in that case you either can't or really, really, really shouldn't use X. In the latter two cases you probably shouldn't even consider a graphical user interface, at least not running on the same machine. But if you really have good reasons (or management forces you), perhaps you should consider using xlibemu, also for DJGPP. It is probably nowhere close to complete and probably also quite buggy but there you are. It is /not/ an X server. It is /most definitely/ not a port of XFree86. Instead, it is a library with an xlib compatible interface that emulates an X server and a window manager. I trust you can find the relevant URLs with google just as well as I can. -Peter _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
