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From: egbert@cs.uiuc.edu (Parris Egbert)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: PEX Available for Anonymous FTP
Keywords: PEX PHIGS graphics standards X
Message-ID: <1991Feb11.170005.29207@cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 11 Feb 91 17:00:05 GMT
References: <1991Jan30.212921.3736@cs.uiuc.edu> <1991Feb2.101051.15198@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com> <1991Feb4.160046.14428@maths.tcd.ie>
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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There have been several questions regarding the types of machines UIPEX
will run on.  We wrote the code on an IBM RT PC running 4.3.  We have
not ported the code to other machines, but designed it so that porting
would be easy.  For example, we have not made any IBM-server specific
function calls.  To port to another machine, do the following:

1. Compile $(PEXTOP)/pex/server/dipex and $(PEXTOP)/pex/server/ddpex
   this should generate libdipex.a and libddpex.a.
   As far as we know, dipex and ddpex are not making any IBM-server
   specific function calls (Since we only have access to the IBM-server
   code, the above statement is made base on the fact that we are
   only making calls to $(XTOP)/server/dix functions and all the output
   related routines are called through the GC->function pointers.),
   this means porting the dipex and ddpex should be a matter of compiling
   the two libraries.

2. Edit the file $(XTOP)/server/ddx/mi/miinitext.c, add in the line
        PexExtensionInit();
   into the InitExtensions routine.
   Remember to re-make the libmi.a library to reflect the change.

3. Re-link the X-server like what you would do otherwise, but
   this time, you need to specify libdipex.a and libddpex.a
   as link-time libraries.

That should do it.