[Xcb] Native win32 port - progress :)

[Peter Harris]

Jeetu Golani wrote:
> I've made progress with the win32 port of XCB.

Sounds good.

> So far I'm just testing the code by linking the object files directly with 
> sample XCB programs from the XCB tutorials. Will build it into a DLL once 
> it's all ready.

Just a word of warning, since you're moving towards DLLs: On Win32, the 
DLL's libc has to exactly match the application's libc. No mixing debug 
and release builds, no mixing static libc with dynamic libc, and no 
mixing compilers[1].

The problem would be reduced in scope if we had an xcb_free() (the way 
Xlib has XFree()), but the designers of xcb believe that xcb_free() is 
too ugly for words. They're right, but that doesn't help us poor slobs 
stuck on Win32.

You probably already knew all of this, but I thought I'd bring it up 
just in case.

Peter Harris

[1] Not strictly true; I believe the MinGW/GCC compilers all use the 
"VS6 Release DLL - MSVCRT.DLL", so those can be mixed. But each MS 
compiler version has its own set of libcs. I'm not sure what the Intel 
compilers do these days.
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