Re: Has anyone run xdm successfully under cygwin?

[pbs <pnews at tiscali dot co dot uk>]

pbs wrote:
> pbs wrote:
>> I have come back to this problem and have messed around with xdm on a
>> Windows XP home edition using Cygwin 1.5.24(0.156/4/2). It still has
>> similar problems to those I experienced back in 2003. So in the interim
>> has anyone successfully run the program?
> 
> So that I can trace the problems further, I would like to download the
> source code for xdm and compile it. I looked at the instructions at
> http://x.cygwin.com/ and could not work out how I can go about
> downloading xdm sources and supporting libraries. Please could someone
> point me to a document on how to download the necessary source code, or
> tell me how to do it.

OK I know it is available in this package
http://cygwin.com/packages/xorg-x11-bin/xorg-x11-bin-6.8.99.901-1-src
but I don't now yet how to download and build it. Can someone please
give me some pointers.


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