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From: jchoi@ics.uci.edu (John Choi)
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Subject: XNeXT and R4 (maybe imake, too)
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Date: 3 Jul 90 01:36:14 GMT
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    Okay, first some questions and then possibly some answers.
Questions:
     1.  Does anyone know how to make shared libraries?  The manual
         makes mention of how to use existing shared libraries, but
         how can I create a new one?
     2.  Can 'atom' be used to convert a.out executables complied on
         a Sun3 into Mach-O objects?
     3.  Has anyone compiled X11R4 libraries on the NeXT?

  The reason I ask these questions is that I compiled the X11R4 libraries
on the NeXT last weekend.  I even compiled a few X programs with the
new libraries (xterm,xclock,xedit, etc.) and ran them with the R3 XNeXT
server.  Guess what?  They worked.  But, (there's always a but) the
X programs are extremely large (400-600K).  Xclipboard.R4 on the Sun is
only 32K and XTerm is 188K.  The NeXT versions were 467K and 520K,
respectively.  I'm guessing it might be because I didn't use shared
libraries.  Is this reasonable?  Is there something I'm missing?

Possible answers to previously posted XNeXT questions:
     1.  imake - 
              a. try removing all the null comments (/**/); these
                 seem to make the cpp insert spaces and other garbarge.
              b. manually hack the resultant Makefile; usually all that's
                 necessary is "cc -O -bsd ..."   It helps to have all the
                 headers and libraries in the standard locations.
              c. sometimes -O causes problems; ommit as necessary.

     2.  why XNeXT doesn't run xterm or show cursor -
              a. it can't find the necessary fonts and/or bitmaps.
              b. did you run Xinstall?

Summary:

     I think this question of how to create shared libraries is one
which might be easily answered by someone who knows (NeXT employee?).
Please respond to the net.  Thanks.