RE: How to compile WindowMaker?

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

you need to link to libX11, and other libs as needed.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marcus Vinicius Eiffle Duarte [mailto:kk@eq.ufrj.br] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 8:33 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: How to compile WindowMaker?
> 
> 
> Hi, folks!
> 
> I am trying to compile WindowMaker 0.80 under Cygwin.
> I have read the README and INSTALL files and did all the 
> things they tell me to do (at least, I guess I did). However, 
> after running the configure utility, I ran the make utility 
> and, at the end of the compiling process I get an error and 
> the program is not built. The lines that show the error are: " ....
>     Making all in Examples
>     make[2]: Entering directory 
> `/tmp/wm/WindowMaker-0.80.0/WINGs/Examples'
>     /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link gcc  -g -O2  -o 
> connect.exe  connect.o ../../WINGs/libWUtil.a 
> -L/usr/local/lib  -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lintl
>     gcc -g -O2 -o connect.exe connect.o
>  ../../WINGs/libWUtil.a -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lintl
>     ../../WINGs/libWUtil.a(wapplication.o): In function
> `WMInitializeApplication':
>     /tmp/wm/WindowMaker-0.80.0/WINGs/wapplication.c:39: 
> undefined reference to `_Xsetlocale'
>     collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>     make[2]: *** [connect.exe] Error 1
>     make[2]: Leaving directory 
> `/tmp/wm/WindowMaker-0.80.0/WINGs/Examples'
>     make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>     make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/wm/WindowMaker-0.80.0/WINGs'
>     make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> "
> I also figured that, even though the INSTALL file tells me to 
> run a program called ldconfig after I run make, I do not have 
> a ldconfig.exe in my Cygwin distribution. I am not a C 
> programmer, nor I am a Linux experienced user. Can anybody
> 
> a) help me and tell me how to successfully compile 
> WindowMaker under Cygwin?
> b) tell what is the program ldconfig?
> 
> I tried searching for these answers in the mailing lists 
> archives, but (for some reason I don't know) the pages in the 
> archive do not open in my computer (I always get a time-out 
> after a minute or two). I am running Cygwin 1.3.6 under 
> Windows 2000 SP2 (Brazilian Portuguese). I downloaded 
> WindowMaker-0.80.0.tar.gz from windowmaker.org.
> 
> Thanks in advence,
> 
> Marcus Vinicius Eiffle Duarte, M.Sc.
> 
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> 
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