[ale] Xlib on Win32

[Geoffrey]

Chris Fowler wrote:
> That might be the way to go.  I have a GTK+ programming manual and
> I hear GTK+ takes mauch of the Xlib crap away.  Faster 
> development time.  I also need POSIX support in the networking
> side.  I do not want to have to do the following just to communicate via
> the network:
> 
> #include <win32.h>
> 
> I'm looking into MKS Enterprise development software.

I don't know how far it's gotten, but you should check into Uwin.  It's 
similar to MKS, with the one exception that it is free.

http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/

Last time I checked, David Korn (as in ksh fame?) was the technical lead 
of the project.

> 
> Thanks,
> Chris Fowler
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bao C. Ha [mailto:baoha at sensoria.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 5:50 PM
> To: 'James P. Kinney III'; 'Chris Fowler'
> Cc: 'Atlanta Linux User Group (E-mail)'
> Subject: RE: [ale] Xlib on Win32
> 
> 
> 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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