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Re: Help about xorg-x11-fnts
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 15:47:02 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: Help about xorg-x11-fnts
- References: <000201c582e6$a5a5c280$8d2fb5d5@keloasc60pobkb>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Alireza Ghasemi wrote:
> Hello,
> I have downloaded xorg-x11-fonts-6.8 but I don't know how to compile
> it.There is no typical Makefile and no configure script.Please explain me
> step by step how to compile it and get use of X11 in Cygwin.I have
> downloaded all other needed packages But it is very difficult for me to
> download huge 16 MB xorg-x11-fnts binary file.
The fonts are built from a large source distribution containing everything
from X. The xorg-x11-*-src packages are just snippets of the large distribution.
The build from the source packages does not properly work and requires good
knowledge of make and the directory layout of X11.
Download
xorg-x11-fnts-6.8.2.0-1-src.tar.bz2
Unpack
tar xvjf xorg-x11-fnts-6.8.2.0-1-src.tar.bz2
tar xvjf xorg-x11-fenc-6.8.2.0-1-src.tar.bz2
Fix references to xorg-x11-base-6.8.2.0-1-src.tar.bz2
ed xc/fonts/bdf/misc/Imakefile <<EOF
/Arabic
s/#if .*/#if 0/
/^CLEARLYUOBJS
s/^CLEARLYUOBJS/&_/
w
EOF
Build
cd xc/fonts/encodings
xmkmf -a
cd ../bdf
xmkmf
make Makefiles
for i in misc 75dpi 100dpi; do make -C $i install TOP=../../..; done
bye
ago
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