[mythtv] [PATCH] Win32 frontend support

[Ian Caulfield]

--On 20 January 2004 04.28 -0500 Isaac Richards <ijr at po.cwru.edu> wrote:

> On Monday 19 January 2004 03:11 pm, Ian Caulfield wrote:
>> This patch should allow mythfrontend to run under Windows using cygwin.
>
> Very cool.  I've applied most of your patch to CVS.

>> The most significant change I've made is to move the definition of the
>> gContext variable into libmyth - this is necessary in order to allow
>> compilation under windows, and I don't think it should affect Linux
>> users. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> You can't have it export that symbol to the libs?  I'd like to keep
> things the  way they are in this respect, unless really necessary..

Unfortunately I haven't found a way around it yet - when Windows builds a 
DLL,
it needs to resolve all its inputs at linktime. I haven't found a way to
convince the linker that the gContext symbol will be available at runtime.
I'll see if I can figure it out - if anyone else knows much about Windows 
DLL
imports, they're welcome to give advice.

>
> In addition to the gContext change, I left out the vsync parts of NVP.cpp
> -- I  would really prefer that those were wrapped into vsync.cpp, so that
> there's  no logic duplication in NVP.

I'll work on that. The code doesn't seem to work especially well anyway, so
I'll submit another patch once I've figured out how I need to do it.

Ian