RE: [rdesktop-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix for X11 build on BeOS

[Donofrio, L. <don...@um...>]

Nothing is really dead, it all depends on interest.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rde...@li...=20
> [mailto:rde...@li...] On Behalf=20
> Of Fran=E7ois Revol
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 6:47 AM
> To: RDesktop-devel
> Subject: [rdesktop-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix for X11 build on BeOS
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> Hi again,
> Anyone cares to comment on this one or everyone thinks BeOS is dead ?
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> Fran=E7ois.
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> > Hi, just subscribed this list...
> > This patch includes all that is needed to get rdesktop=20
> built correctly=20
> > under BeOS using X11.
> > In particular it supersedes the one posted at=20
> > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D767995&
> > group_id=3D24366&atid=3D381349
> > named [ 767995 ] Patch for BeOS net_server.
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> > It's also available at:
> > http://clapcrest.free.fr/revol/beos/patches/rdesktop-cvs-12-17-2003-
> > beos-net_server-bone-x11.patch.3.txt
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> > Note BeOS doesn't use X11 for its GUI, so using rdesktop in an X11=20
> > window is quite ugly and painful, still that patch is needed anyway.
> > I'm currently working on a native backend for BeOS, and I currently=20
> > have the drawing stuff mostly working, mouse cursors and=20
> movement too,=20
> > as you can see at=20
> > http://qube.ru/images/gallery/native_beos_rdesktop_big.png
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> > I'm now at implementing keyboard handling, and I'm=20
> wondering how to do=20
> > it.
> > I think I'll follow the way the VNC stuff does, that is convert the=20
> > BeOS keycodes to KeySyms (they map quite well anyway), then=20
> pipe that=20
> > to xkeymap.c directly. Now that will require x11stub.c too, which=20
> > obviously won't be VNC-specific anymore, so I suggest it is=20
> moved out=20
> > of the vnc folder, along with its header (which I'll have=20
> to tweak a=20
> > bit to exclude some stuff with a ifdef).
> > Any comments on that ?
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> > Now here are some notes on the included patch:
> > - the headers of the X11 distribution for BeOS don't have=20
> protos, and=20
> > some lack the int return type, so we avoid warnings. Also,=20
> BeOS uses=20
> > lots of
> > 4
> > char constants in its headers, so we avoid warning those too.
> > - there are 2 networking stacks for BeOS, net_server, which is the=20
> > default one, and has some weirdness, and BONE, which=20
> implements real=20
> > BSD sockets as file descriptors, but needs linking to libsocket and=20
> > libbind.
> > - rdesktop.c uses gethostname without the header.
> > - BeOS doesn't implement 5 and 6 bit serial transfers, so=20
> it defines=20
> > CS5, CS6 and CS7 to be the same value, so we get a duplicate case=20
> > label error if we don't ifdef that out.
> > - net_server doesn't have netinet/tcp.h nor arpa/inet.h=20
> (BONE_VERSION=20
> > is used to tell it's not net_server).
> > - net_server doesn't have TCP_NODELAY, so we define it if it's not=20
> > there (more generic).
> > - SupportDefs.h is required by other BeOS header files, and=20
> this one=20
> > typedefs intxx types, so we ifdef them out and include that file.
> > - xwin.c plays with sockets without the header!
> > - fd_set isn't typedefed
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> > Fran=E7ois.
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