Date: Mon, 05 Jan 98 12:04:00 PST From: Adam Turoff <AdamT@smginc.com> To: "'perlsta@sunyit.edu'" <perlsta@sunyit.edu> Cc: hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: interested in working on windows port (sorry for cross post) Message-ID: <34B13CF5@smginc.com>
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> I'm interested in making a windows 95/NT port of Xfree86, > i plan on using DirectX to support fast accesses to the graphical hardware. [...] Sorry, but the last time I checked, DirectX was one of those Win32 technologies that's not fully supported on NT. That may have changed with a service release of somesort for either DirectX or NT. If you're looking for a free X server for Win32, why not look at the MicroImages X server? I forget where I found it, but it's probably 2 or 3 clicks away from Cygnus' UNIX on NT resource page. >From what I remember, MicroImages had the foresight to write a multiplatform GIS package that uses X. Rather than making a Win32 version, they ported a simple X server to Windows. Don't think you can change the window manager, but (1) it works, (2) it's free and (3) it's functional, if not fullblown X. HTH, -- Adam.
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