[ale] Xlib on Win32

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Fri Mar 22 17:40:19 EST 2002


I'm not positive on this but I think you're asking for the moon on a
silver platter. :-o

Xlib stuff requires lots of capabilities up and running. That's why it
requires an X server. You could try dodging the Xlib stuff and use a
different backend network/mouse/connection lib but what would it be? You
would probably have to roll most of your own stuff to avoid using X. 

Look at some of the tiny-X stuff. If all you're looking for is a
cross-platform GUI lib set, Qt works as well as wx-windows. 

On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 17:11, Chris Fowler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to write a few Xlib programs to run on Windows based systems.
> I'm would
> like to know if anyone knows of a pacakge I can use to do this.  I've tried
> Cygwin but
> do not like having to run a full X server just to run somthing like xterm.
> I would
> prefer to run the app without having to start an Xserver. I would like to
> make excution
> seemless to the user.  I need X windows programming ability and POSIX
> support.  I like the way
> cygwin has console based apps like bash, telnet, and ssh.  I would like
> support for
> writing those too.  Does anyone know of a package that will give me what I
> need?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
> 
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