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Trolltech Released Qt 4.0 (KDE.News)Trolltech Released Qt 4.0 (KDE.News)Posted Jun 29, 2005 23:00 UTC (Wed) by jd (guest, #26381)In reply to: Trolltech Released Qt 4.0 (KDE.News) by boudewijn Parent article: Trolltech Released Qt 4.0 (KDE.News)
It should be easier than that. All you need to do is reverse-engineer the DLL that handles the underlying window management, write a GPLed clone of it, and have it support the X protocol as a wrapper. Then, you add a new DLL which provides an IBCS wrapper to translate Linux system calls into Windows system calls. Finally, you compile a copy of glibc to use the IBCSed Unix-like API. Then, KDE and friends should run natively without any further changes.
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Trolltech Released Qt 4.0 (KDE.News) Posted Jul 1, 2005 10:40 UTC (Fri) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link] That doesn't sound easy at all. Are you a Troll™? Building KDE on Qt4 to run on Windows will be a matter of weeding out Windows-incompatible Unix-isms, which should(!) all be concentrated in the lowest-level libraries. Reverse-enginering the Windows 'window management DLL' sounds scary :-). "... a new DLL which provides an IBCS wrapper to translate Linux system calls into Windows system calls ..." This is what Cygwin tries to do (without the 'IBCS' buzzword). It's a *hard* problem. In the meantime Cygwin supports many KDE apps. That's about as 'native' as what you're suggesting.
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