***BOGO*** Re: [Mingw-users] imlib2

[Earnie Boyd <earnie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Keith Marshall <keithmarshall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Wednesday 30 April 2008 15:50, Tripp wrote:
>> trying to compile imlib2,
>> and again it's not close to being a simple,
>> configure & make & make install.
>>
>> got up to here:
>> on configure i get this,
>>
>> checking for X... no
>> checking for XOpenDisplay in -lX11... no
>> configure: error: ERROR: libX11 not found.
>
> I suspect that you're heading for a hiding to nothing with this one; if
> the package can't be built --without-x, then it is going to have a very
> torrid time in a native Win32 environment.
>
> It isn't in MinGW's remit to provide services for POSIX or X-Window, so
> you either have a major porting exercise ahead, to replace all the
> X-Window API references with native MS-Windows API alternatives, or you
> need an emulation framework.  For your needs, you may do better looking
> at Cygwin.
>

Right but then their are others[1].  I've not used xming nor do I know 
if they provide a libX11 to use.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xming

Earnie

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