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On December 19, 2008, Jon Rafkind wrote:
> Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> > For whoever takes an interest in this, I've compiled Allegro 4.9 svn
> > on OpenSolaris (I know this isn't a priority platform). After I hunted
> > down all the development packages I needed (the names are of course
> > completely different from those on a Linux system...) it compiled
> > fine. The examples I tested worked without any problems.
>
> Nice. I've fooled around with OpenSolaris a little bit. Could you
> document the packages you needed to install? Did you have to add any new
> package authorities besides the ones that are provided?
>
> Does 4.9 not need libXaw? I had trouble installing libXaw on
> OpenSolaris, although I read some messages on the internet that said it
> should be fixed soon.
No heck no. Allegro uses straight up libX11 mainly because all we need is a
single window per display and input events. No need for a gui lib.
Its the main reason it works so well ;)
> > Not much more to say about this, really, except I guess well done to
> > the X11 port developers for writing a "proper" generic X11 port.
> >
> > Evert
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