On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 03:29:28PM +0100, Peter Ekberg wrote: >Background: I miss DirectX header files. Slightly patched headers from >the Wine project works fine for me, so I submitted those some time ago. >However, they were rejected due to licensing issues (Wine is LGPL, >w32api is Public Domain). I then asked nicely if the Wine developers >would be so kind as to release the headers under a less restirictive >license. Not surprisingly, I didn't receive responses from all >contributors so that was a dead end.
I sent your query to mingw-dvlpr. Here was the response: On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 08:17:03PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: >From Christopher Faylor: >> Is there really no hope of getting these into w32api? >> > >Uhm, directx lives already in w32api. See w32api/include/directx and >w32api/lib/directx. Patches to those should be submitted to >http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=2435&atid=302435. So, a cygwin package would be inappropriate. cgf