[mythtv] Changes needed for Compilation on Cygwin

Ian Caulfield imc25 at cam.ac.uk
Wed Mar 22 23:49:19 UTC 2006


On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Robert Johnston wrote:

> On 3/22/06, Mark Buechler <mark.buechler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ah, good point.. that's a shame. A Windows port of Qt I would think would be
>> slower than a genuine release. But then again Myth also needs X, or does the
>> DirectX still take care of the neeed for that?
>
> As Myth uses QT to open the window and do (most) things related to it,
> then Myth should work on Cygwin using Win32. If it uses X, I shall be
> very dissappointed (As I tried using CoLinux and Xming to run a myth
> box on here, and as all the Windows X servers don't support XV, and
> you can't use Shared Memory over a network link).

Myth worked fine on Windows with QT and directx when I originally did the 
port - no X needed at all. It stopped working when the KDE qt/win32 build 
under cygwin broke, and I haven't really tried again since.

Ian


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