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RE: How do you build XWin.exe from the XFree86 source tree? Please Help!
- To: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>,<cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: How do you build XWin.exe from the XFree86 source tree? Please Help!
- From: "Fallon, Charlie" <charlie_fallon at vibren dot com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 08:32:04 -0400
Hi Suhaib,
Thank you for your response. You're a great help. Could you help me
with some additional questions?
You made the statement:
NO. you can have a blank site.def file, but do not copy cygwin.cf to
site.def or host.def You will create duplicates and as a result big
compilation mess.
If I have a blank site.def, how does "make World" work?
I've looked at the FAQ's secton on the xfree-cygwin site and it says to
go into the xwin directory and type the command
"make Makefile". I perform this and nothing appears to happen.
Next it says to go into the /xc directory and type make XWin.exe. When
I do this the makefile tells me there's no rule to make XWin.exe.
Any idea as to what I'm doing wrong??
- Charlie
-----Original Message-----
From: Suhaib Siddiqi [mailto:ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 8:30 PM
To: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'
Cc: Fallon, Charlie
Subject: RE: How do you build XWin.exe from the XFree86 source tree?
Please Help!
> YOU ARE IN THE WRONG MAILING LIST!
>
Please post to proper mailing list ONLY.
> Once again, I have redirected this message to the correct list.
>
> Sheesh.
>
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 07:10:16PM -0400, Fallon, Charlie wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I was wondering if anyone could help me in building the XWin.exe from
> >the XFree86 source tree? I'm running into a lot of problems. First
> >off, I've read the documentation on the xfree86-cygwin site and have
> >still been unable to properly build it. My questions are:
> >
> >In the /xc/config/cf directory, do I copy over the cygwin.cf file to
> the
> >site.def file?
NO. you can have a blank site.def file, but do not copy cygwin.cf to
site.def or host.def You will create duplicates and as a result big
compilation mess.
> Do I then run make World?
Yes
I've tried this and I've
> come
> >up with 2 errors every time.
Post the exact error messages. It is impossible to imagine what those
errors could be.
> >
> >Can the XWin.exe be built on a Linux machine or does it have to be
> built
> >on a Microsoft machine?
Yes, Read about cross-compiling. Harold posted instructions.
> >
> >Basically, I am not clear on how to setup the configuration and or
> what
> >environment the XWin.exe should be created in (Linux, Microsoft).
Should be compiled on Windows. But you can compile on Linux too if you
are
set to do a cross-compilations. It is Cygwin application for Windows.
> >
> >Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> >Charlie Fallon
> >Vibren Technologies Inc.
> >Software Engineer
> >80 Central Street
> >Boxborough, MA 01719
> >Phone: (978) 929-5532
> >charlie_fallon@vibren.com <mailto:charlie_fallon@vibren.com>