RE: How do you build XWin.exe from the XFree86 source tree? Please Help!

["Fallon, Charlie" <charlie_fallon at vibren dot com>]

Hi Suhaib,

Thank you for your response.  You're a great help.  Could you help me
with some additional questions?

You made the statement:

NO. you can have a blank site.def file, but do not copy cygwin.cf to
site.def or host.def  You will create duplicates and as a result big
compilation mess.


If I have a blank site.def, how does "make World" work?

I've looked at the FAQ's secton on the xfree-cygwin site and it says to
go into the xwin directory and type the command
"make Makefile".  I perform this and nothing appears to happen.

Next it says to go into the /xc directory and type make XWin.exe.  When
I do this the makefile tells me there's no rule to make XWin.exe.


Any idea as to what I'm doing wrong??

- Charlie




-----Original Message-----
From: Suhaib Siddiqi [mailto:ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 8:30 PM
To: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'
Cc: Fallon, Charlie
Subject: RE: How do you build XWin.exe from the XFree86 source tree?
Please Help!




> YOU ARE IN THE WRONG MAILING LIST!
> 


Please post to proper mailing list ONLY.


> Once again, I have redirected this message to the correct list.
> 
> Sheesh.
> 
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 07:10:16PM -0400, Fallon, Charlie wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I was wondering if anyone could help me in building the XWin.exe from
> >the XFree86 source tree?  I'm running into a lot of problems.  First
> >off, I've read the documentation on the xfree86-cygwin site and have
> >still been unable to properly build it.  My questions are:
> >
> >In the /xc/config/cf directory, do I copy over the cygwin.cf file to
> the
> >site.def file? 

NO. you can have a blank site.def file, but do not copy cygwin.cf to
site.def or host.def  You will create duplicates and as a result big
compilation mess.

> Do I then run make World? 

Yes

 I've tried this and I've
> come
> >up with 2 errors  every time.

Post the exact error messages.  It is impossible to imagine what those
errors could be.

> >
> >Can the XWin.exe be built on a Linux machine or does it have to be
> built
> >on a Microsoft machine?


Yes, Read about cross-compiling.  Harold posted instructions.

> >
> >Basically, I am not clear on how to setup the configuration and or
> what
> >environment the XWin.exe should be created in (Linux, Microsoft).

Should be compiled on Windows.  But you can compile on Linux too if you
are
set to do a cross-compilations.  It is Cygwin application for Windows.

> >
> >Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> >Charlie Fallon
> >Vibren Technologies Inc.
> >Software Engineer
> >80 Central Street
> >Boxborough, MA 01719
> >Phone: (978) 929-5532
> >charlie_fallon@vibren.com <mailto:charlie_fallon@vibren.com>