Re: Nokia to Acquire Trolltech to Accelerate Software Strategy

On a sunny day (Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:48:08 +0100) it happened Markus Moll
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Hi

Jan Panteltje wrote:

I am using xforms, http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/xforms/
it is extremely small, uses callbacks for the GUI, and so far I have been
able to write anyting I wanted with it.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2447324 2006-01-31 14:10 /usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.a
2.5MB
But only Linux of course.

Not true. From the docs:

"Forms Library and all the programs either described in this document or
distributed as demos have been tested under X11 R4, R5 & R6 on all major
UNIX platforms, including SGI, SUN, HP, IBM RS6000/AIX, Dec Alpha/OSF1,
Linux(i386, alpha, m68k and sparc) as well as FreeBSD, NetBSD (i386, m68k
and sparc), OpenBSD(i386, pmax, sparc, alpha), SCO and Unixware. Due to
access and knowledge, testing on non-unix platforms such as OpenVMS, OS/2
and Microsoft/NT are less than comprehensive."

Markus

Well, it uses libXpm, so how can it run on NT?
ldd some_appl_with_xforms:
libforms.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.so.1 (0xb7e97000)
libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0xb7e64000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7c44000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb7c37000)
.

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