RE: A short update

["Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>]

Hi John,

Yes, DirectX is a good target for cygwin-xfree. DirectX/XGGI/GGI
is a good target.  You had
been working on this project, therefore I prefer you provide
the updates on DirectX target.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Fortin [mailto:fortinj@ibm.net]
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 9:56 PM
> To: Suhaib M. Siddiqi
> Subject: Re: A short update
>
>
> Hi Suhaib,
>
> 	Are you still focusing on XGGI/glide version??   I have the
> directX SDK
> ported over, so now I am learning how to use it.  I plan on a creating a
> DirectX target for GGI, hopefully in the near future.  Then An XGGI (?)
> server..
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" wrote:
> >
> > This just a short update on cygwin-xfree porting project.
> >
> > I have created a new Arch in
> Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-supported/cygwin named
> > cygwinArchitect.  I researched the history of XFree86 port to OS/2
> > during last couple weeks.  The idea of creating a Cygwin specific
> > architect (cygwinArchitect) came from XFree86/OS2.  This allowed me
> > to fix a lot of problems.
> > The Imake.cf in xc/config/cf now contains
> >
> > #ifdef __CYGWIN__
> > #define cygwinArchitect
> > #define i386Architect
> > #endif
> >
> > This picks the right code from hw/xfree86/os-supported/cygwin.
> Previously
> > I was using #define linuxArchitect, which picking up a lot of Linux
> > Kernel related header files and causing problems.
> >
> > Now I am down to only approx. 10 C sources files which needs to
> fixed, and a
> > few *.s
> > files which are giving problems when using gcc -E.
> >
> > I am spending most of my spare time on cygwin-xfree.  I hope to get a
> > preliminary
> > functional X-server in near future.  I have not updated the cygwin-xfree
> > source tree since last month, because I was on daily basis doing
> > changes to code.  I will update the cygwin-xfree source tree
> this week, and
> > also
> > provide a a diff file against Xfree86 3.3.3.1.
> >
> > Suhaib
>