Announcement: NXLIB 0.44 released

[Greg Haerr]

The first public release of the NXLIB Project, a companion project
to Microwindows that allows X11 binaries to run unmodified
using the Microwindows Nano-X server, is available from the
Microwindows web site:

ftp://microwindows.censoft.com/pub/microwindows/nxlib-0.44.tar.gz

This release has been tested heavily with FLTK v1.0.11,
and FLTK v1.1.3. FLTK is built using the standard
X11 headers and libX11.so shared library. The NXLIB
replacement for libX11.so (named libX11.so.6) is then
used to run all FLTK test programs successfully without
source or binary modification. This is great news since
we now can use a very full-featured small footprint widget
set, as well as many already-built applications in the
Microwindows environment.

Although a work in progress, NXLIB also is making progress
running unmodified QT and GTK+ programs. NXLIB v0.44
has been tested with QT v2.3.1, and GTK+ 1.2.10, and
many of the demonstration programs are currently running.

NXLIB works by emulating only the Xlib (libX11.so)
library. Since FLTK's use of Xlib is much smaller than
GTK+ or QT, more programs are currently running.
There is still work to do with the Xrm resource manager
routines, and of course the idea is to keep the footprint small.

NXLIB requires Microwindows v0.90, just released.

The Microwindows mailing list, at microwindows.org will be used
for questions, suggestions and patches to NXLIB. NXLIB
is licensed under a the MPL license, with a conversion
capability to GPL, the same as Microwindows.


Have fun!

Regards,

Greg


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[Greg Haerr]

The first public release of the NXLIB Project, a companion project
to Microwindows that allows X11 binaries to run unmodified
using the Microwindows Nano-X server, is available from the
Microwindows web site:

ftp://microwindows.censoft.com/pub/microwindows/nxlib-0.44.tar.gz

This release has been tested heavily with FLTK v1.0.11,
and FLTK v1.1.3. FLTK is built using the standard
X11 headers and libX11.so shared library. The NXLIB
replacement for libX11.so (named libX11.so.6) is then
used to run all FLTK test programs successfully without
source or binary modification. This is great news since
we now can use a very full-featured small footprint widget
set, as well as many already-built applications in the
Microwindows environment.

Although a work in progress, NXLIB also is making progress
running unmodified QT and GTK+ programs. NXLIB v0.44
has been tested with QT v2.3.1, and GTK+ 1.2.10, and
many of the demonstration programs are currently running.

NXLIB works by emulating only the Xlib (libX11.so)
library. Since FLTK's use of Xlib is much smaller than
GTK+ or QT, more programs are currently running.
There is still work to do with the Xrm resource manager
routines, and of course the idea is to keep the footprint small.

NXLIB requires Microwindows v0.90, just released.

The Microwindows mailing list, at microwindows.org will be used
for questions, suggestions and patches to NXLIB. NXLIB
is licensed under a the MPL license, with a conversion
capability to GPL, the same as Microwindows.


Have fun!

Regards,

Greg