[ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 1
Charles Wilson
cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Sun Apr 1 00:00:00 GMT 2001
Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
>
>
> The code which comes with Xfree86 has some different export symbols.
> libz.dll reports at least one missing symbol if the one from cygwin/contrib
> is used.
> I have not compared xpm code from xfree86 with Chuck code, but Xpm is now
> standard library for Xfree86 4.x.
Code was taken from 4.0.1 XFree86 distribution. (Acutally, at that time
it was identical to 3.4k except for some documentation strings.)
> Some users at opendx mailing list
> reported weierd pixels
> if xpm from contrib directory was linked. Xpm is part of Xfree86 4.0 and it
> will be going
> through modifications and enhancements by Xfree86 team. I, personally,
> see no reasons to distribute Xpm separately any more. How many applications
> use
> Xpm compiled with MSVC without X? I am hardly aware of any, except, perhaps
> Buba rxvt?
XEmacs. And that ONE app is enough to justify the cygXpm-noX.dll IMO.
--Chuck
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