NEdit 5.5rc1, cygwin version

[Nathaniel Gray]

On Aug 4, 2004, at 12:11 PM, Joerg Fischer wrote:

>> Why are static Xlibs required to build a static LessTif?
>
> I don't know. However, I tried first to build a shared lesstif
> and to link lesstif into nedit statically. Result is a dynamically
> linked nedit. Then I tried to build a static lesstif, which failed.

Unless things are very different in the Windows world (which might be 
the case) the decision on building LessTif statically should be totally 
separate from the decision on building the X libraries statically.  You 
might want to ask about this on the LessTif mailing list -- it would 
make the user experience more smooth if they didn't have to worry about 
installing compatibility libraries.

> Basically, Harold Hunt has pointed out that Cygwin/X's build system
> can only do either a static or a shared built of the libs, and they
> have only shared libs now (must be somewhere in the archive starting
> with the thread "Why nedit.org shouldn't distribute nedit"). Seems
> to be special to Cygwin/X.

I understand that.  What I don't get is why it matters WRT building 
LessTif.

Cheers,
-n8

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