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From: Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Baby X is bor nagain
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:15:11 +0100
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On 11/06/2024 17:02, Bonita Montero wrote:
> Am 11.06.2024 um 11:13 schrieb Malcolm McLean:
> 
>> I've finally got Baby X (not the resource compiler, the Windows 
>> toolkit) to link X11 on my Mac. And I can start work on it again. But 
>> it was far from easyt to get it to link.
>> Can friendly people plesse dowload it and see if it compiles on other 
>> platforms?
> 
> For large files it would be more convenient to have an .obj-output in
> the proper format for Windows or Linux. I implemented a binary file to
> char-array compiler myself and for lage files the compilation time was
> totally intolerable and all the compilers I tested (g++, clang++, MSVC)
> ran into out of memory conditiond sooner or later, depending on the
> size of the char array.
> I don't really see a necessity to have conversion for image formats
> with such a tool as the conversion isn't needed very frequently and
> you could save the image in the proper format yourself.
> 
These are Baby programs. But they use a cut down GUI. So they need to 
get fonts and images into the program somehow. And so Baby X does that 
by converting to 32 bit C arrays which can be compiled and linked as 
normal. And for that, you need a tool. Writing a tiff file decoder is 
not a trivial exercise.
-- 
Check out my hobby project.
http://malcolmmclean.github.io/babyxrc