Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Use of libX11

[Robert Funnell]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2011, Volker Grabsch wrote:

> MinGW as well as mingw-cross-env only support the build tools. We do
> not support any kind of Unix emulation. ...

I don't really understand this distinction. Why are, say, gstreamer 
and qt considered to be build tools, but not X11?

> ... In particular, I don't think
> it makes much sense for your project to use libX11 for the Windows
> application.

I agree. It makes no sense except for the vast amount of legacy code 
that I have.

> I recommend that you still use the Win32 API or whatever you are
> currently using in the Windows version of your applications.

That would be a good idea, but I don't know how to access it outside 
of Visual Fortran.

> Also consider using Qt. :-)
>
> For low-level graphics stuff, OpenGL and GLUT are also a very
> good, portable choices.

Again, I agree, but it's not a short-term project to change all my 
ugly old non-event-driven, mixed-GUI-and-logic code. I was hoping for 
a quick fix to get away from the antique Visual Studio and commercial 
Fortran compiler on my dying laptop. If X11 isn't available, I'm 
wondering about maybe writing a small intermediate layer for Cairo 
like what I have for Visual Fortran and for X11.

- Robert