>>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Demmer writes: > > Thomas> Until last week I was using 21.4.11 or so from xemacs.org, built with > Thomas> whatever cygwin they used and it ran fine, so I was assuming a cygwin bug > Thomas> here. > >In which mode does it run ? > >The following is copied from a header file in the XEamcs source tree, >windowsnt.h: > >1. Keep in mind that there are two possible OS environments we are dealing > with -- Cygwin and Native Windows. Cygwin provides a POSIX emulation > layer on top of MS Windows -- in particular, providing the file-system, > process, tty, and signal semantics that are part of a modern, standard > Unix operating system. MS Windows also provides these services, but > through their own API, called Win32. When compiling in a Cygwin > environment, the Win32 API's are also available, and in fact are used > to do native GUI programming. > >2. There are two windowing environments we can target XEmacs for when > running under MS Windows -- Windows native, and X. (It may seem strange > to write an X application under Windows, but there are in fact many X > servers out there running on Windows, and as far as I know there is no > real (or at least, that works well) networking Window-system extension > under MS Windows. Furthermore, if you're porting a Unix application to > Windows and use Cygwin to assist you, it might seem natural to use an > X server to avoid having to port all the code to Windows.) For XEmacs, > there are various reasons people could come up with for why we would > want to keep maintaining X Windows under MS Windows support. > >That gives us four possible build environments. I (Ben) build >regularly on fully-native-everything, Andy builds on Cygwin + MS >Windows + X Windows for windowing.
It used to run in Cygwin and MS Windows mode. It did not have X11 support built in, IIRC. Expressed with the flags you mentioned: CYGWIN,HAVE_MS_WINDOWS [...] Ciao Tom -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
