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Re: Cygwin (Was Re: Can not compile MASH source code!)

On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Denis DeLaRoca wrote:

> Cygwin looks interesting... and here some questions. For Unix TK to
> compile and run under the Cygnus environment, wouldn't you need the
> XFree86 libs and headers? Perhaps, the split model of using the binary
> distribution of TCL/TK from scriptics with MASH compiles under Cygnus
> would work?

Probably, I haven't tried that yet.  I think using the WIN32 build of TK
will save some problems with X11 hassle.  But according to the Cygwin
page, XFree86 is being ported, ie support for DirectX and Cygwin in
XFree86 4.01.  Status is most likely beta at best.

> And how about hardware device drivers? Can we do them under Cygnus as
> well? Though, sound and video drivers for MASH under windows are now using
> Window's API and drivers, no?

That's an interesting question.  Right now the Mash tools under windows
are using window's drivers.  Audio is just audio devices, and video for
windows for the captures.  (Somebody should correct me if I'm wrong).
Note: Looking at the audio code, I don't think support for duplex sound
cards in windows are enabled.  This should be fixed.

I guess eventually down the line, we should probably use DirectX API for
audio and video under windows, but that probably break the abstraction, at
least for video rendering in TK.

--Paul