Greg Haerr has announced the first public release of the NXLIB Project, a companion project to Microwindows that allows X11 binaries to run unmodified using the Microwindows Nano-X server. Haerr offered the following comments on the NXLIB release . . .

“This release has been tested heavily with FLTK v1.0.11, and FLTK v1.1.3. FLTK is built using the standard X11 headers and libX11.so shared library. The NXLIB replacement for libX11.so (named libX11.so.6) is then used to run all FLTK test programs successfully without source or binary modification. This is great news since we now can use a very full-featured small footprint widget set, as well as many already-built applications in the Microwindows environment.”

“Although a work in progress, NXLIB also is making progress running unmodified QT and GTK+ programs. NXLIB v0.44 has been tested with QT v2.3.1, and GTK+ 1.2.10, and many of the demonstration programs are currently running.”

“NXLIB works by emulating only the Xlib (libX11.so) library. Since FLTK's use of Xlib is much smaller than GTK+ or QT, more programs are currently running. There is still work to do with the Xrm resource manager routines, and of course the idea is to keep the footprint small.”

NXLIB is available for ftp download, here. It must be used with the newly released version 0.90 of Microwindows (or later). The Microwindows mailing list, at microwindows.org, will be used for questions, suggestions and patches to NXLIB, Haerr said.

NXLIB is licensed under a the same Microwindows Public License (MPL), which provides a “conversion capability to GPL,” Haerr added.

 
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