[mythtv] Re: compiling mythtv frontend for cygwin

Ian Caulfield imc25 at cam.ac.uk
Wed Sep 29 12:00:15 EDT 2004


On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Buechler, Mark R wrote:

> Furthermore, the preview window works fine when in recordings.

The preview window doesn't use DirectX

> Getting the frontend to work with QT/Win32 would ultimately be better on
> memory consumption anyway. Running it under Cygwin made using anything else
> very painful on my laptop with only 512megs memory.

When I did the original work on the port, I used the qt/win32 cygwin port, 
and I didn't notice anything too bad memory-wise. Unfortunately I can't 
seem to get the latest version executing, and don't have enough time to 
work on it enough.

Ian



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