Ticket #1071 (closed feature request: invalid)

Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 2 months ago

The Graphics.X11 library for windows using Cygwin/X

Reported by: guest Assigned to:
Priority: normal Milestone: Not GHC
Component: libraries (other) Version: 6.6
Severity: normal Keywords: X11 binding
Cc: Difficulty: Unknown
Test Case: Architecture: Unknown/Multiple
Operating System: Windows

Description

The X11 binding that exists does not follow together with the windows GHC installation. There is an X Server for windows, see http://x.cygwin.com/.

This could follow with GHC regardless of if the user actually has a Server or not, since one could connect to a server on another computer.

Change History

01/05/07 06:20:17 changed by simonmar

  • priority changed from high to normal.
  • difficulty changed from Moderate (1 day) to Unknown.
  • severity changed from blocker to normal.
  • milestone changed from 6.6.1 to Not GHC.

True - in theory there's no reason we can't supply the X11 package on Windows. However, there are serious practical difficulties. We don't have a set of X11 client libraries that we can use. There are libraries for Cygwin, but GHC is not compiled as a Cygwin application so we can't use those libraries.

There's an X server that is non-cygwin, but no client libraries: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Xming

If you where we can get a set of X11 client libraries that we can build against, then please let us know. Presumably these would have to be shipped with the X11 package too.

07/09/08 07:08:35 changed by igloo

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to invalid.

No longer an extralib, so closing the bug.

I haven't forwarded this one to Don (X11 maintainer), as in a suitable build environment (i.e. with suitable libraries available) I think it would Just Work.

09/30/08 08:45:08 changed by simonmar

  • architecture changed from Multiple to Unknown/Multiple.