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Re: Cygwin
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Paul wrote:
>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.
They somehow managed to compile and run Tcl/Tk 8.1 under Cygwin,
implying that XFree86 is not necessarily needed. I don't know how it
works. The whole thing is still somewhat confusing to me.
>> 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).
This shouldn't be a problem. According to the webpages, you can use
both Cygwin APIs and Win32 APIs at the same time. You can access
devices either way, so Mash should still work.
Lloyd