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Re: Hello I am a newbie
- To: Jorge Andreu García <409173 at cepsz dot unizar dot es>
- Subject: Re: Hello I am a newbie
- From: Stan Shebs <shebs at shebs dot cnchost dot com>
- Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 07:03:07 -0700
- CC: xconq7 at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <39B17CB9.91EF0A8@cepsz.unizar.es>
- Reply-To: shebs at shebs dot cnchost dot com
Jorge Andreu García wrote:
>
> Hello,
Hi!
> I have just downloaded Xconq and I would like to run it in a Windows 98
> OS, but I cannot find the way to do it.
>
> First I have read in the README file that I can download a version with
> the Xconq build with a Xconq.exe, but I have downloaded the files
> xconq-7.3.3.tar.gz and xconq-7.3.3-tcltk.tar.gz and I don't find any
> .exe
Those are the sources only. No one has yet built a binary for
Windows, the most recent Window binary I know of was for 7.2.96.
> As I would like to participate in this project I would like to see the
> sources and build them, but as I usually works with Unix compilers, I
> don't know what should I do to compile the sources in Windows. I have
> the Borland 4.5 C++ builder, but I don't know how to work with
> Makefiles.
>
> So, what should I do/download to compile Xconq?
I see from your later message that you've picked up cygwin. The
basic instructions are in the text file INSTALL.
Stan