[plt-scheme] MrEd and the look

From: Robby Findler (robby at cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: Sat Jun 14 20:36:12 EDT 2008

oops lost list cc first time.

Robby

On 6/14/08, Robby Findler <robby at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> This is becoming something of a FAQ at this point. There are more
> details in the mail archives, but the short version is that we
> branched from wx a very long time ago and for technical reasons it
> would be very difficult to merge their changes into our world.
>
> At this point it is closer to the truth that we have nothing on common
> w/ wxWindows.
>
> Sorry,
> Robby
>
> On 6/14/08, Marek Kubica <marek at xivilization.net> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I've just unpacked the x86_64 Fedora PLT 4.0 binary and it works -
>> great.
>>
>> I did a quick look into the mred source to verify the information I've
>> read that MrEd uses wxWindows. It does. But when I did an ldd on the
>> mred binary, it does not seem to link against wx but rather on the
>> low-level libraries:
>>
>> linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff94dfe000)
>> libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6
>> libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6
>> libXaw.so.7 => /usr/lib/libXaw.so.7
>> libXmu.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXmu.so.6
>> libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXt.so.6
>> libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
>> libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6
>> libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
>> libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1
>> libXft.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXft.so.2
>> libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
>> libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
>> libcairo.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
>> libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0
>> libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1
>> libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62
>> libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2
>> libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
>> libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6
>> libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
>> libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6
>> libXpm.so.4 => /usr/lib/libXpm.so.4
>> libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6
>> libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6
>> libXxf86vm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXxf86vm.so.1
>> libXdamage.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXdamage.so.1
>> libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3
>> libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0
>> libdrm.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdrm.so.2
>> libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1
>> libpixman-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0
>> /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
>>
>> My question is, whether it would be possible to have a wxGTK-enabled
>> MrEd? As far as I have used wxWidgets (via wxPython) programs written
>> with wx should run just fine with any GUI toolkit.
>>
>> regards,
>> Marek
>>
>> P.S.: While I'm at it: congratulations for the new release!
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