Building XWin.exe

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Thomas Chadwick wrote:

> I've recently been motivated to tinker a bit with compiling XWin.exe on my 
> own.  After reading through the "Obtaining the Source Code" and "Native 
> Compiling" sections of the Contributor's Guide, I'm left with the following 
> question ...
> 
> Do I rally need to download and build all of XFree86?  Can't I just download 
> the Xservers branch of the source tree, run "xmkmf -a" to generate the 
> Makefiles and dependencies, and then compile just the XWin target?

The most recent source for XWin can be found in the xoncygwin CVS repository.
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xoncygwin

The code there consists only of a few libraries and XWin itself and should build
much faster than the whole XFree86 CVS.

bye
	ago
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