Enabling SHM support in default build of XWin.exe

[David Fraser]

Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> Ralf Habacker sent some patches on 2003/09/05 that I am working on 
> getting committed to the XFree86 CVS tree.  Those two patches are here:
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-09/msg00092.html
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-09/msg00090.html
>
>
> I have opened Bug 698 in XFree86's Bugzilla to track the fixing of the 
> xf86bigfont extension initialization:
>
> http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698
>
>
> After Bug 698 is committed I will be adding a function (from Ralf's 
> patches) to XWin.exe to check whether or not the IPC daemon is 
> running, then I will be adding a call to that function in the 
> initialization of the SHM and xf86bigfont extensions (again, per 
> Ralf's patch).
>
> This should result in a build of XWin.exe that supports SHM when the 
> IPC daemon is running, but is not hindered when the IPC daemon is not 
> running.
>
>
> This will be a nice addition, as it will allow Ralf to stop 
> distributing ancient copies of XWin.exe for KDE on Cygwin.  :)
>
>
> My one question is this: KDE on Cygwin (last I checked) is also 
> distributing a handful of X libraries (X11?) that need SHM support as 
> well, can SHM be dynamically enabled/disabled for these libraries, or 
> are they going to have to be built in two different flavors still?
>
>
> Regardless of the answer, adding dynamic SHM support to XWin.exe will 
> solve the majority of the problems of KDE on Cygwin distributing 
> custom files.  XWin.exe gets updated so frequently that it would be an 
> unreasonable burden for them to try to keep their copy up to date.
>
>
> Harold
>
This is great news, thanks for working on this

David