I successfully ported everthing but the glibmodule code & the esound
interface. After a few abortive enquiries here (helpful answers but I
did not know enough about dlopen* to debug what was happening) I left it
for dead. I believe someone else has had a bit more success. And yes
the xfree86 (www.cygwin.com/xfree86) port worked with what I built. I
still have the source tree with the patched files around somewhere.
100 lines of source sounds about right. Took me two days :] (I skipped
the gmodules once I had it building.. it was failing on tests not
compilation).
Corba was trivial (Thanks to cygwin's support for domain sockets et
al)... Even hacked it to support win9x, although with a commensurate
loss of security.
So if someone that groks libtool & dlopen & libtldl properly wants to
collaborate on this... let me know.
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 8 February 2001 4:20 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: ksh93? -- also u/win question
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 12:01:33AM -0500, Dennis McCunney wrote:
> >>Can you give an example of some of the clever ideas in uwin? I know
> >>that they have some sort of setuid daemon or something like
> that but it
> >>has been a while since I really investigated U/WIN.
> >
> >The main thing of interest is that Global Technologies, Ltd, the
> >commercial liscensing outfit that sells supported commercial versions
> >of U/WIN, has successfully ported GNOME to it. They claim it took
> >under two weeks to port 4 million lines of code, and less than one
> >hundred lines of source changes were required.
>
> Yeah, I saw that. I imagine that porting to Cygwin would be
> similar. Hmm.
> I think it may already be done. Should we announce this to
> the world, too?
>
> I got contacted by one of the people from Global Technologies
> a while ago.
> He was asking about the Cygwin Xfree86 project that Suhaib
> Siddiqi is heading.
>
> He saw a lot of "overlap between the product lines" and was picking my
> brains for exactly how much of the Xfree86 port and gcc he
> could package
> with his software. My feeling was that he wanted to find out how much
> he could use for free.
>
> I would be thrilled to collaborate with the guys at AT&T but
> somehow I don't
> see much happening with the people who are trying to sell
> U/WIN commercially.
>
> cgf
>
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