RE: Imake and DLLs under Cygwin

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

> > Good luck.
> > But please do not assume that X-server is that code is functional.
> > It is under development, and if you are willing to help
> > to finish this project, your help will be appreciated.
> > > > You can look at X11-def.cpp as an example in xfree source tree.
> > > I'm downloading now ...
>
> So with imake the 'foo-def.cpp' for libfoo.dll is just the 'foo.def' but
> with 'LIBRARY_VERSION' so that the imake rule can parameterise
> that through
> the preprocessor - in case anyone else has the same problem.
>

Why can you not make the foo-def.cpp on Sun?  You wrote you had
your software working on Sun? Am I right? You can use nm and sed on libs you
compiled on Sun  to make
your fpp-def.cpp then ftp over to Win32 and compile.

That is what I do if I had a software already compiled on a Unices platform.

> I'm going on holiday now - where?  The USA!

oh? where,east, south, west, north, mideast, southeast, northeast...
unfortunately USA is too big to figure out where you would be in USA ;-)

>
> PS re. X-server help: I'm certainly not a Windows device driver
> expert so I
> suspect my effectiveness would not be high ...
>

N/P. For Cygwin users: today a conversation at Xfree86 developers list
started a thread on Cygw-xfree.  Literally over 100 messages came within an
hour and some (at least couple) from a commercial setup of Cygwin like
product were suggesting that Cygwin would never work.  The only way to go is
use MSVC and their products, plus rewrite 99% of the Xfree86 code with Win32
API!!! huh?