[ale] Xlib on Win32

[Bao C. Ha]

Have you looked into gtk+?  I believe it has win32dll.
It should give the same GUI look and feel across 
platforms: Linux, Windows and Mac.

Bao

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James P. Kinney III [mailto:jkinney at localnetsolutions.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 2:40 PM
> To: Chris Fowler
> Cc: Atlanta Linux User Group (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [ale] Xlib on Win32
> 
> 
> 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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