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Re: Gtk+ & cygwin problem
- From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:49:28 -0600
- Subject: Re: Gtk+ & cygwin problem
- References: <A5A0DBC245144DC0986FC0878A49BE86@DadPC>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On 20/01/2010 16:36, Richard Dickinson wrote:
Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
Some googling would have shown you what this means. You need to be
running an X server and set the DISPLAY variable in order to use GTK+
(or any other X11 GUI).
This being a Cygwin/X question, it really belongs on the Cygwin/X list;
redirecting accordingly.
And on my Vista machine I have gtkmm for Windows setup from which I can run
Gtk-demo from my Vista cmd prompt
GTKmm for Windows is just that -- for WINDOWS. Cygwin's GTK+ is a
*NIX/X11 version and needs a Cygwin-built GTKmm, which is available from
Cygwin Ports.
(but cannot compile gtk+ code with from Vista cmd
prompt as I get 'access denied' error message?!).
'/usr/bin/gcc' is a symlink, which Windows itself doesn't understand.
Cygwin commands are generally meant to be run from a Cygwin environment
(in this case, bash, or another shell of your choice).
> I have cygwin/bin in my path& gtkmm/bin also.
This is asking for problems. You're better off keeping extra Win32
components out of your Cygwin PATH.
Yaakov
Cygwin/X
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