Re: rxvt in search of libX11.dll

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Fri, 20 May 2005, Didier BRETIN wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have installed some X11 packages and the 'startx' is working.
> I have xterm.
>
> But when I want to launch 'rxvt' it says to me that it doesn't
> find libX11.dll.

As I understand it, rxvt will first look for cygX11-6.dll, which is in
xorg-x11-bin-dlls, and only then for libX11.dll (which is in
XFree86-lib-compat).  The fact that it doesn't find cygX11-6.dll probably
indicates that you don't have /usr/X11R6/bin in your PATH.  However,
without the system information requested in the Cygwin problem reporting
guidelines at <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>, the above is just a
guess.

> I launch a "find / -name 'libX11.dll' " on my cygwin installation
> and this file is not existing.
>
> What is the package for this library I need to install ?

The answer to "which package should I install to get file A" almost always
involves the Cygwin package search page at <http://cygwin.com/packages>.
A search for "libX11.dll" there points to the XFree86-lib-compat package.
However, as I said, you probably just need to add /usr/X11R6/bin to your
PATH.

One other point: rxvt has a Windows native mode, which doesn't require a
running X server.  You can invoke rxvt with "-display :0" to get the
Windows native mode (it uses libW11.dll, which comes with the rxvt
package, and doesn't need X installed).
HTH,
	Igor
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