nanogui: Thread: mwin on win32 (using cygwin)

I compiled mwin with X11 support on win32 using cygwin.
Dllwrap builds without errors and seems to export the graphic functions,
this give me one big dll (driver engine mwin ..).

Question: 1) Would it be possible to recompile some win32 source code
so it runs on a winbox and display on a X-terminal ?
2)Because most of the graph functions are redefined, can we tell a
win32.exe to use this dll for his graphics?

Has anybody tried something simular ?

: I compiled mwin with X11 support on win32 using cygwin.

Cool - did you make Makefile modifications, or was this done manually?

: 
: Question: 1) Would it be possible to recompile some win32 source code
: so it runs on a winbox and display on a X-terminal ?

Well, Microwindows doesn't spit out actual X0 protocol on the wire,
so it wouldn't display directly on an X terminal.  However, the Nano-X
protocol could be written from a win32 box over the network to
the Nano-X server, running on a system that could display running on
top of X.



: 2)Because most of the graph functions are redefined, can we tell a
: win32.exe to use this dll for his graphics?

This is accomplished using Micro$oft's .def file linker redirection madness.
This will definitely be required in order to know whether real win32 or
Microwindows' win32 .dll should take the referenced functions.  If you
don't have a Microwindows screen driver written that calls win32, then
there will be no symbol overlap, and you should be able to specify the
mwin library first in the linker command line and possibly statically link
it with the application.

Regards,

Greg

:      Cool - did you make Makefile modifications, or was this done
manually?
Both
The problem with cygwin is that ld -shared is not know and block the
compilation, so I changed ld to echo in the makefile.  After I copied
the object files the a /tmp dir and run in that dir
dllwrap --add-stdcall-alias --export-all-symbols --output-def mwin.def
--implib libmwin.a -o libmwin.dll *.o
-L/usr/X11/lib -lX11 -L/cygwin/lib -lstdc++
--------
objects
-------
X6x13.o button.o caret.o combobox.o devarc.o devclip.o
devdraw.o devfont.o devimage.o devkbd.o devlist.o devmouse.o
devopen.o devpal1.o devpal2.o devpal4.o devpal8.o devrgn.o
devrgn2.o devtimer.o draw3d.o edit.o error.o fastfill.o
fb.of blin1.o fblin16.o fblin2.o fblin24.o fblin32.o
fblin4.o fblin8.o genfont.o genmem.o graph3d.o insetr.o
kbd_x11.o listbox.o medit.o mou_x11.o mwobjects.o mwuser.o
progbar.o ptinsid.o rom8x16.o sans.o scr_x11.o scrlbar.o
selfont.o static.o winclip.o windefw.o winevent.o winexpos.o
winfont.o wingdi.o winmain.o winrgn.o winsbar.o winuser.o xsans.o
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you have to do the same for the mwin/bmp dir


For test I run a X server (x-winpro) on my pc (win32).
The test applications are showing up (mterm mine) for a second and then
get killed.

Still looking why

Thanks for the response