Re: problems with libX11.a

[Mark Mussetter <mark at link-comm dot com>]

Hi Harold,

Thanks for your help.  We were able to get MicroWindows running after you 
pointed us in the right direction.  We already had the Xfree86-prog package 
but you comments about trying to link explicitly to libX11.a led us to the 
problem.  The following is a clip from Makefile.rules:

ifeq ($(X11), Y)
DEFINES += -DX11=1
ifneq ($(ARCH),CYGWIN)
# Cygwin can't use this - the -lX11 needs to be specified
# *after* the object files that use it, but this inserts
# it at the start.  For Cygwin, we will add libX11.a to the
# library list instead.
LDFLAGS += -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11
else
MW_CORE_LIBS += /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.dll.a
endif
ifeq ($(ARCH),FREEBSD-X86)
INCLUDEDIRS += -I/usr/X11R6/include
endif
ifeq ($(ARCH),CYGWIN)
INCLUDEDIRS += -I/usr/X11R6/include
endif
endif

We changed the 10th line to its current state.  It used to say 
"MW_CORE_LIBS += /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a"

Once we made that change everything else fell into place and we were able 
to run the demos.

My steps were:
1. cd microwin/src

2. Typed "cp Configs/config.cygwin config" for the cygwin configuration.

   See CONTENTS and Configs/README for more information.

3. Typed "make"

4. Change the Makefile.rules file to link against libX11.dll.a instead of 
libX11.a

5. Typed "make"

4. Ran ./demo.sh


Thanks again for your help,


At 05:32 PM 12/31/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> Mark,
>
> Can you tell me your build steps and/or send me your build config file?  I 
> would like to try building at least nanox and see if it would be useful to 
> distribute via Cygwin's setup.exe.  Please send the config file to me 
> privately if it is larger than 25 KiB.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Harold
>
> Mark Mussetter wrote:
> > Hello Everyone,
> > I'm running Cygwin on a Windows 2000 machine and I'm trying to get 
> > MicroWindows going.  My problem is that I'm getting the following error:
> > ***
> > make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a', needed by 
> > `/microwindows/microwindows-0.90/src/bin/nano-X'.  Stop.
> > ***
> > I do have "libX11.dll" but can't find the "libX11.a" library anywhere.
> > We've updated our Cygwin this morning using the Cygwin setup utility so I 
> > think we are as current as we can be.  We've done a search on the entire 
> > Cygwin directory and "libX11.a" is nowhere to be found.
> > Can someone point me in the right direction to solving this problem?
> > Thanks in advance for any help,
> >
> > Mark Mussetter
> > Link Communications, Inc.
> > email: <mailto:mark@link-comm.com>mark@link-comm.com
> > phone: (406) 245-5002 ext 105
> > Fax:    (406) 245-4889
>
> Mark Mussetter
> Link Communications, Inc.
> email: <mailto:mark@link-comm.com>mark@link-comm.com
> phone: (406) 245-5002 ext 105
> Fax:    (406) 245-4889