[GHC] #1071: The Graphics.X11 library for windows using Cygwin/X

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#1071: The Graphics.X11 library for windows using Cygwin/X
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 Reporter:  guest              |          Owner:          
     Type:  feature request    |         Status:  new     
 Priority:  normal             |      Milestone:  Not GHC 
Component:  libraries (other)  |        Version:  6.6     
 Severity:  normal             |     Resolution:          
 Keywords:  X11 binding        |     Difficulty:  Unknown 
 Testcase:                     |   Architecture:  Multiple
       Os:  Windows            |  
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Changes (by simonmar):

  * difficulty:  Moderate (1 day) => Unknown
  * milestone:  6.6.1 => Not GHC
  * severity:  blocker => normal
  * priority:  high => normal

Comment:

 True - in theory there's no reason we can't supply the X11 package on
 Windows.  However, there are serious practical difficulties.  We don't
 have a set of X11 client libraries that we can use.  There are libraries
 for Cygwin, but GHC is not compiled as a Cygwin application so we can't
 use those libraries.

 There's an X server that is non-cygwin, but no client libraries:
 [http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Xming]

 If you where we can get a set of X11 client libraries that we can build
 against, then please let us know.  Presumably these would have to be
 shipped with the X11 package too.

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