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- From: merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin)
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- Subject: QUERY: possible port of XFree86 Xlib to IBM OS/2 2.1 beta
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 01:06:50 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- OS/2 2.1 beta provides a pretty decent X11R4 server plus a small number
- of binary demo applications including xhello. However, no Xlib library
- is available commercially or otherwise from IBM or other third parties.
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- What preprequisites are required in order to port the XFree86 library
- to a new operating system? The $15.00 OS/2 2.1 beta PDK (programmer's
- development kit) includes 32 bit C/C++ compiler, linkers, debuggers,
- TCP/IP libraries, and full documentation for these products. What are
- the requirements for simply porting the Xlib library to a new system?
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- Apart from porting the X11R4 Xlib library to OS/2 2.1 beta, what would
- be require to port the X11R5 version of XFree86 server, libraries, and
- clients to OS/2 2.1 beta? It would be nice to be able to use the PEX
- library calls & a window manager other than IBM's Presentation Manager
- under the OS/2 2.1 beta system.
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- The IBM C compiler accepts 32 bit OMF libraries.
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- Thanks, AJ
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