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RE: building xwin packages


Here is my cross compile build log so that you can see what is supposed to
happen:

http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/World-cross.log.bz2 (156 KiB)

Hope that helps,

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Nicholas Wourms
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 8:09 PM
> To: Harold Hunt
> Subject: RE: building xwin packages
>
>
> Harold,
>
> Before you go, don't forget to post the script :).  Thanks in advance and
> have a pleasant trip!
>
> Cheers,
> Nicholas
> --- Harold Hunt <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com> wrote:
> > Nicholas,
> >
> > > Is there anything different which must be done now to cross compile
> > that
> > > wasn't included in your directions or has changed since you wrote
> > them?
> >
> > I haven't done a cross compile in a couple of months now.  I just
> > deleted by
> > Cygwin cross compiler off of my Linux machine, so I'd have to spend a
> > bit of
> > time to do a test cross compile right now.  I'm a little strapped for
> > time
> > right now and we're going out of town for the weekend, so it'll have to
> > wait
> > until next month sometime.
> >
> > On the other hand, I do recall that if you do not pass the flags
> > *exactly*
> > as documented the build process will usually bomb at imake.  You should
> > be
> > using the command like so (all on one line, but I wrapped it for
> > readability):
> > [harold@MyCrossHost std]$ make World
> > BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS="-D__CYGWIN__ -Ulinux -DCrossCompiling=1"
> > IMAKE_DEFINES="-D__CYGWIN__ -Ulinux" > World.log 2>&1
> >
> > Good luck,
> >
> > Harold
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Nicholas Wourms [mailto:nwourms@yahoo.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:09 PM
> > > To: Harold L Hunt
> > > Subject: Re: building xwin packages
> > >
> > >
> > > Harold,
> > >
> > > I am quite aware of the the trias involved with building Xfree (I just
> > > went trough it a few months ago on OSX ;)).  Given that, I was
> > attempting
> > > to follow the directions on in the contributor's guide regarding
> > building
> > > Xfree.  Unfortunately matters have been complicated twofold, as I am
> > quite
> > > dissappointed with the performance of compilation on my windows
> > machine.
> > > Therefore I was setting up a cross-compile environment on my suse 7.3
> > > linux box per your directions.  This is where I want to ask a
> > question:
> > >
> > > Is there anything different which must be done now to crosscompile
> > that
> > > wasn't included in your directions or has changed since you wrote
> > them?
> > >
> > > I will follow the steps below and see if my result is different, but
> > for
> > > some reason when I followed your directions (before you sent this
> > mail) in
> > > the howto and double checked my process, the make process bombs out on
> > > imake.c, complaining about a "imake.c:395: parse error before `1'".
> > From
> > > what I see crosscompiling needs different defines?  I'm not
> > sure...despite
> > > that my will is strong and my desire to recompile is kindled by the
> > desire
> > > to help in testing kde.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Nicholas
> > >
> > > --- Harold L Hunt <huntharo@msu.edu> wrote:
> > > > Nicholas,
> > > >
> > > > Building the XFree86 packages for Cygwin is not for the faint of
> > heart.
> > > > It
> > > > takes possibly many hours (especially for first timers) and there is
> > a
> > > > lot
> > > > that can go wrong.  With that in mind, I'll point you to two of the
> > > > three
> > > > steps for building the packages, and I'll post the packaging script
> > > > tonight
> > > > when I am on the machine that has it.  I had posted the script
> > before
> > > > but the
> > > > machine it was on is no longer accessible, so I'll have to put it
> > > > somewhere
> > > > else.  Be aware that you can start the first two steps and by the
> > time
> > > > that I
> > > > post the packaging script in about 8 hours you still won't have
> > built
> > > > XFree86...
> > > >
> > > > 1) Follow the instructions in the Cygwin/XFree86 Contributor's Guide
> > for
> > > > downloading the source for XFree86 and building it.  You'll want to
> > grab
> > > > the
> > > > `xf-4_2-branch' of the source code.  I think you would do that with:
> > > >
> > > > cvs checkout -r xf-4_2-branch xc
> > > >
> > > > Notice that some of the patches to the latest Xxserv package were
> > not
> > > > applied
> > > > to the xf-4_2-branch (I don't think Alan keeps an xf-4_2-branch tree
> > > > around)
> > > > so you'll need to grab the default branch and copy the files from
> > > > xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xwin/ into your 4_2 tree.
> > > >
> > > > The relevant steps in the Contributor's Guide are here:
> > > >
> > > > http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/cg/prog-build-native.html
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 2) After building XFree86 you'll need to create the XFree86
> > packages,
> > > > which is
> > > > very difficult.  I've attempted to create a Cygwin-specific version
> > of
> > > > the
> > > > instructions for this at:
> > > >
> > > > http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/cg/prog-distribution.html
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 3) Now you need to convert the XFree86 packages into Cygwin
> > packages.
> > > > This is
> > > > done with the build.sh script that Ian Burrell wrote and I modified.
> > > > I'll
> > > > post this later tonight, but the basic idea is that you copy the
> > XFree86
> > > > packages into a directory with build.sh, then run the script.  It
> > takes
> > > > about
> > > > 5 to 10 minutes on my 1200 Athlon with a pretty quick hard drive, so
> > I
> > > > wouldn't be surprised if it took up to an hour on older hardware.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > You'd better be really sure that you actually want to do this before
> > you
> > > > put
> > > > any time into it.  There is a reason that XFree86 was not
> > installable
> > > > via
> > > > Cygwin's setup.exe for almost a year after we started using the
> > XFree86
> > > > packaging script.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Good luck,
> > > >
> > > > Harold
> > > >
> > > > Nicholas Wourms <nwourms@yahoo.com> said:
> > > >
> > > > > Harold,
> > > > >
> > > > > How do you build the packages for use with setup.exe?  Do you use
> > a
> > > > script
> > > > > or do you do it by hand?  If it is a script, would you post it
> > please?
> > > >
> > > > > The reason I ask is because I want to recompile X and add it to my
> > > > local
> > > > > install directory with upset.  Thanks in advance!
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > Nicholas
> > > > >
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