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Re: Problems compiling xsystem35 under cygwin
- From: Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:02:01 -0400
- Subject: Re: Problems compiling xsystem35 under cygwin
- References: <5.1.0.14.0.20030731125450.00b37530@pop.desm.qwest.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Morgan,
Cygwin/XFree86 is not currently built with, and won't soon be built
with, the X SHM (Shared memory extension) enabled. We cannot enable X
SHM until Cygwin has a stable shared memory system. Shared memory is
part of the ongoing effort to improve the Interprocess Communications
(IPC) systems in Cygwin.
I am not sure what xsystem35 is or what it does, but perhaps there is a
way to configure it to be built without needed shared memory. If not,
you can compile your own version of Cygwin/XFree86 with shared memory
enabled (just be sure to have Cygwin's shared memory system installed
and configured correctly first), then build and run xsystem35. Or, you
could use the precompiled binaries distributed by the KDE on Cygwin
project that already have SHM enabled.
Hope that helps,
Harold