Re: questions on DISPLAY and libX11.a

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 08:18:12PM -0500, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
>Did you try?
>
>SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 (from a DOS Shell)
>
>or export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 (from a bash shell if you are starting from
>a bash shell).
>
>However, startxwin.bat, should set display for you?  Are you sure X-server
>is starting and you are getting an X-desktop? If not, xterm will not
>display.
>
>Unfortunately no, you cannot link to libX11.a using MSVC.  It is a gcc
>library for Cygwin.  If you are interested for libraries for MSVC, you can
>check out http://win32-xfree.sourceforge.net.  Unfortunately,
>sourceforge.net is getting lousy.  They used to be well organized but now
>since last 2 months, my several requests to reset the CVS so I can replace
>X11R6.4 code with X11R6.5.1 code had gone un-answered.  I might send them a
>couple of more reminders.  In case of no response I would call the project
>"DEAD" and replace the URL with a "DEAD PROJECT" banner.  In the mean time
>you could grab the X11R6.4 libs for MSVC if you wish.

Do you want to host the project on sources.redhat.com?  I can always offer
space there.  It doesn't matter if it's a cygwin project as long as it is
an open source project.

cgf