From: "Thomas Chadwick" <j_tetazoo@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Compiing XWin...
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:51:37 -0400
Ages ago I did some messing around with compiling XWin. I followed the
steps in the Contributor's Guide, checking out the xc package from CVS and
running make World. After that I was able to play with XWin itself,
recompiling just that target from the xc/programs/Xservers directory (or
something similar - don't know if I'm remembering it quite correctly).
At the time, it occurred to me that if I installed the XFree86-lib and
XFree86-prog packages via Cygwin Setup, it should be possible to get just
the Xservers branch of the XFree86 source tree, run xmkmf to generate the
Makefile, then build just XWin without having to download and build all of
XFree86. But I never got around to re-trying it that way.
I've recently been motivated to do some tinkering with XWin and before I
set about the task of getting the source, compiling, etc., is there an
obvious (or not-so-obvious) fallacy with my modified approach to building
XWin?
FYI - A full build of XFree86 takes hours on my ThinkPad w/ Pentium III @
700MHz, 512MB RAM, and Win2k.
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