NEdit 5.5rc1, cygwin version

[Danny Backx]

I wouldn't know why this has anything to do with LessTif
specifically. I'd ask someone who knows about Cygwin.

	Danny

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 10:44, Nathaniel Gray wrote:
> 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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