RE: Cygwin-Xfree-Opendx Question

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Annette and Frankie Stone [mailto:fstone@majik-net.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 1:55 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@xfree.cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Cygwin-Xfree-Opendx Question
> 
> Further along but still needing help.
> 
> 1.  I do not understand how to "pass a proper screen configuration
> for
> screen number 0 to
>    XWin.exe".  Where do you enter the "XWin.exe -screen 0
> 800x600x16" - on
> the cygwin bash shell?

Have a look at the startxwin.sh script in startup-scripts directory under
/usr/X11R6/bin.  It is best you use one of the startup batch or script file
to start xfree86.

> 
> 2.  I have updated cygwin with the latest release and I have
> downloaded the
> latest opendx for cygwin and installed it.
> 
> I can now open dx (the dxscreen is larger than the Xfree86 screen)
> but it
> will not open a sample file.  The visual program
> editor comes up but not the file.  There are a number of messages.
> 
> The first thing I will mention is that in running Xfree86 the
> "cygwin/tmp/.X11-unix" folder seems to keep getting lost.  Most of
> the time
> it shows
> up on the cmd.exe as not being found.

Ignore it.  It is harmless warning

> 
> In dx the first file it couldn't find was LIBR_HDF.dll.  I
> searched and
> found where it was and included it in the path.
> 
> It now is looking for libpng.dll.  There is a libpng.dll.a in
> C:/cygwin/lib
> but there was not a libpng.dll on the C drive.   I've included the
> way to
> libpng.dll.a in the
> path and it does no good.


You should have libpng.dll in /usr/bin? If not then you can do following
from bash shell

cd /usr/bin
ln -s cygpng2.dll libpng.dll

> 
> I re-installed Xfree86 to see if it would help and I have pasted
> some of the
> shell writings below so that you might see if any of this has a
> bearing on
> what is happening.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Frankie Stone
> 
> Checking which OS you're running...
> uname reports 'CYGWIN_NT-5.0' version '1.3.2(0.39/3/2)',
> architecture
> 'i686'.
> 
> chmod: changing permissions of `extract': No such file or
> directory
> /cygdrive/c/cygwin/tmp/gnu-tar: .XFree86_Version: Not found in
> archive
> /cygdrive/c/cygwin/tmp/gnu-tar: Error exit delayed from previous
> errors
> Warning: can't detect the bindist version
> Checking for required files ...
> 
> 
> ./
> SecurityPolicy
> Do you want to overwrite the XftConfig config file? (y/n) [n] y
> Installing the XftConfig config file ...
> + cp -p .etctmp/XftConfig /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XftConfig
> cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XftConfig':
> Permission
> denied
> 
> 
> 
> == Extracting /cygdrive/c/cygwin/tmp/Xbin.tgz ==
> == Extracting /cygdrive/c/cygwin/tmp/Xlib.tgz ==
> /cygdrive/c/cygwin/tmp/extract: lib/X11/xkb: Could not create
> symlink to
> `../../
> ../.././etc/X11/xkb': File exists
> /cygdrive/c/cygwin/tmp/extract: Error exit delayed from previous
> errors
> 
> You appear to have a termcap file: /etc/termcap
> This should be edited manually to replace the xterm entries
> with those in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/xterm.termcap
> 
> Note: the new xterm entries are required to take full advantage
> of new features, but they may cause problems when used with
> older versions of xterm.  A terminal type 'xterm-r6' is included
> for compatibility with the standard X11R6 version of xterm.
> 
> You appear to have a terminfo directory: /usr/lib/terminfo
> New xterm terminfo entries can be installed now.
> 
> Note: the new xterm entries are required to take full advantage
> of new features, but they may cause problems when used with
> older versions of xterm.  A terminal type 'xterm-r6' is included
> for compatibility with the standard X11R6 version of xterm.
> 
>