From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 2 03:35:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA26954 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 2 Jan 1998 03:35:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fang.cs.sunyit.edu (root@fang.cs.sunyit.edu [192.52.220.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA26947 for ; Fri, 2 Jan 1998 03:35:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from perlsta@sunyit.edu) Received: from ppp.ios.com (brightmn@ppp-32.ts-10.nyc.idt.net [169.132.99.104]) by fang.cs.sunyit.edu (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA15366; Fri, 2 Jan 1998 07:36:01 GMT Message-Id: <199801020736.HAA15366@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> From: "Alfred Perlstein" To: Cc: Subject: interested in working on windows port (sorry for cross post) Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 06:31:20 -0500 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1161 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk (please excuse the cross post, i'm really looking for help and this is a strange multiplatform subject...) I'm interested in making a windows 95/NT port of Xfree86, i plan on using DirectX to support fast accesses to the graphical hardware. if anyone has the time to answer a couple of questions it would be greatly appreciated. 1) can anyone recommend a free c/cpp compiler/enviornment for this? i've looked at DJGPP,RSXNT, and the cygnus thingy and so far: DJGPP doesn't support win32. RSXNT hardly is docmented and doesn't seem to be useful as a UNIX to WIN32 porting tool things like sockets don't seem to be implemented. cygnus doesn't appeal to me because of hardcore GPL license they have. i do NOT mind giving credit where credit is due... but i'm not too keen on releasing my source, i DO however, plan on the product being free. 2) if i use direct-X does anyone know if it will work on NT? i think mircosoft doesn't support DirectX on NT, or at least not past version 3... 3) what books can i get on the low level details of X? anything on how the X11 source tree is set up? anyone have any pointers to good FAQs/tutorials? thank you, -Alfred