Re: [netPanzer-Devel] DirectDraw

[Matze Braun]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 address@hidden wrote:

> > Great this was alot faster than I expected :)
> > Does this work on linux already? You last paragraph sounds like it's msvc
> > only?
> >
> > Greetings,
> >     Matze
> >
> Yeah, it's only working under msvc (the stuff I wrote will/should compile
> under linux, but there are alot of other changes needed).  It's simple
> stuff, and needs more work, but it's there.
> 
> I think there is a reason to keep the msvc stuff around.  As we convert to
> linux, if we keep it working we can test each change as it's commited and
> will lower the debug time.  That's one advantage over mingW.  That said,
> I'm ok with whatever way we go.  But I'll wait to commit my stuff until we
> decide.  (It's written to keep DirectX in for a while, if we are yanking
> it out now, then I want to clean some stuff up first).
Note that I wanted to keep DirectX too. The switch to mingw, will mainly 
be a switch of compiler which should be a first simple step. I'm still 
working on it. But I'd appreciate it if you could commite your changes so 
that I can integrate them into my efforst and get an impression how they 
work.

Greetings,
        Matze