[Xcb] Native win32 port - working (i think :) )

[Jeetu Golani]

Hi Michael,

My patches may not be on git yet....I've sent them on the list and I
await Barton's approval on the git tree. You should be able to get the
patches from the XCB mailing list archive. If not I'll send them to
you again.

Barton, I'd appreciate if you could authorize the git tree so I can
put up my patches there......or fill me in on what the process is.

I've managed to use the build/configure mechanism of XCB to build a
DLL using my patches. As per my tests my code seems to work. I've
tried all the examples found in the tutorial. Have tested on the X org
X server and also against the WinAxe xserver within Windows.

I'm out on vacation so don't have the code with me however with
regards the fd_bits struct I'm familiar with the problem and it occurs
 because of including one of the headers - select.h, uio.h or bits.h.
I've put ifdefs there and have added the necessary struct as part of
my windefs.h. I've also reworked the code so everything seems to work
fine now.

All of my procedure including how I got the DLL to be built has been
highlighted in the mailing list before.

Would love to hear how you find it.........is your own port of XCB
working well?? have you done extensive testing of it??? Would love
details

Bye for now


On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Michael DOUBEZ <michael.doubez at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> No, I have not used your patches, I have made my on changes. I was not aware
> you were working on porting xcb before looking into the archives of
> freedesktop.
> I'll gladly try them out. I am not familiar with git so I may fumble my way
> around a bit :)
>
> Concerning the checks, my understanding is that you have copied the header,
> it is enough. You need the patch only if you use the configure/make install
> procedure.
>
> I am currently trying to compile libX11 but I have some annoying conflicts
> with windows headers. I am apparently not the first there are some
> interesting "#ifndef XFree86Server" in windef.h.
>
> Bye,
> Michael
>
> Jeetu Golani a écrit :
>>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> Have you used my patches for xcb_conn.c,xcb_util.c,etc?....or have u
>> made ur own changes to the code and configured it to work with that??
>>
>> I didn't need the bypass for the check against fds_bits......not in
>> front of my code now so I can't say how I got thru that immediately
>> though I know I've used preprocessor directives and recoded my way
>> around this.
>>
>> Anyways would be nice to know if you've tried my patches or if you've
>> studied how each of our ports differ :)
>>
>> Bye for now
>>
>> On 5/7/08, Michael DOUBEZ <michael.doubez at free.fr> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have been working on such a port also with msys and mingw.
>>>
>>> For the X header needed, I just grabbed them from
>>> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/X11R7.3/src/everything/.
>>> I have installed in msys:
>>>  - util-macros-1.1.5.tar.gz (for missing m4 defintions)
>>>  - xproto-7.0.10.tar.gz
>>>  - xtrans-1.0.4.tar.gz
>>>  - xextproto-7.0.2.tar.gz
>>>  - libXau-1.0.3.tar.gz
>>>
>>> It is a bit tedious but everything work without problem except in xproto
>>> where I patched configure.ac in order to pass the fds_bits test.
>>> On line 62 of configure.ac, I added:
>>>
>>> case $host_os in
>>>    mingw*) fds_bits_found=true
>>>        fds_bits_found=plain
>>>        USE_FDS_BITS="fds_bits"
>>>        ;;
>>>    *) ;;
>>> esac
>>>
>>>
>>> It only makes a difference in Xpoll.h were it is however not used
>>> (outside WIN32 defined code).
>>>
>>>
>