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Re: DDD And Cygwin
- To: "Bill Klein" <bill@orbit.org>
- Subject: Re: DDD And Cygwin
- From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
- Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 07:11:45 -0400
- Cc: <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
- References: <4.1.19990508183829.009f5bc0@> <4.1.19990510011632.009f7950@>
> Hello Suhaib,
>
> >The Microimage will NOT work. The MIX from Microimage is X11R5 compliant.
> >I used X11R6.4 libraries.
>
> Hmm... I assumed it would work only because they
> mention it (in passing, mind you) on the DDD site...
This wrong. Read the icroimages web site. They mention that Microimage for Windows
is built using X11R5 libraries.
>
> >Second, I used some of my X11 and MOTIF Widgets to get better colors and
> >glyphs working properly under Cygwin. There is no-way MIX can handle those
> >Widgets. MIX is a good toy, but useless for professional work - you get
> >what you pay.
>
> If you get what you pay for then DDD must really be junk. :P
This is your opinion!!!!
I am refering to X-server. MIX is the only free X-server for Windows. It cannot handle more then 256 colors and is built against out-dated X11 libraries. That is what I meant.
>
> >X-Win32? I have no idea about it. If you intend to spend US$ 200.00 on
> >X-Win32, I would suggest try to spend a little more $99.00 and get from Sun
> >Microsystems Solstice Network Client 3.2. It costs $ 299.00, and is as good as
> >Hummingbird Exceed. You can download a 15 day fully functional demo of
> >Solstice Network Client from Sun Microsystems Web site.
>
> $300 is a little pricey just to get a free debugger working,
> but I'll take a look. Thanks for the pointer.
>
You misunderstood. If you are porting and using a lot of X applications from UNIX to Windows. It's worth having a good X-server. Just for DDD I will not advice you either.
Regards
Suhaib
> Thanks for sharing your work in getting DDD going with
> Cygwin. I'll keep at it and try to get it working over
> here.
>
> :)
>
>
> -Bill Klein <bill@orbit.org>
>
>
>
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