[Xcb] Porting XCB to win32 - anyone interested?

Vincent Torri vtorri at univ-evry.fr
Sun Mar 23 13:28:30 PDT 2008


Hey,

> As mentioned in a previous thread, I need the ability to write X clients
> within windows (no Cygwin) and my quest brought me to the door of XCB. I
> think it's a nice and concise library and I'd like to have it running native
> in Win32.
>
> I think the network transport layer would probably need the most work - the
> Scatter/Gather IO mechanism definitely needs work. The pthreads library would
> also need work I suppose, though I haven't reached that far into my
> understanding of the code.

i don't know if you know it, but pthreads has been ported (more or less) 
to windows:

http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/

hth

Vincent


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