nanogui: Linux newbie : how to install MicroWindows on windows ?
Subject:
Re: [nanogui] Linux newbie : how to install MicroWindows on windows ?
From:
"Greg Haerr" ####@####.####
Date:
28 Jun 2001 15:47:20 -0000
Message-Id: <010d01c0ffe9$562b1220$3aba46a6@xmission.com>
: Microwindows is designed to run with GCC (GNU C Compiler). You wil
: hae alot of work ahead of you if you want to get it to work with
: Visual C++.
Actually, this isn't quite true. Microwindows is designed to be as
portable as possible, and runs with a variety of C compilers. For
instance, compilation for 16-bit MSDOS is currently supported
using MSC v5.1.
Getting Microwindows to compile with VC++ shouldn't be a big effort,
but getting Microwindows to run on Windows itself is a larger effort,
which I think Gary is referring to. Actually, getting Nano-X to run
on Windows should be a straight-forward port: just write a screen,
mouse and kbd driver. The big problem is with the win32 side of
Microwindows, which uses exactly the same API function names
as win32 itself, which means there would need to be some fancy
.def file madness for redirecting linker refs and defs...
Regards,
Greg
