RE: how I got an X server & xterm to run under cygwin

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

I think you are making life a bit complicated.
X-servers-v.10.tar.bz2 makes no use of Cygwin mount points, therefore no
need
to fool around with mounts.

Simply unbzip2 and untar in a

c:\usr
directory.
cd to c:\usr\bin\X11
and start using startx or startdx batch files.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: darxus@chaosreigns.com [mailto:darxus@chaosreigns.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 1:36 PM
> To: ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
> Subject: how I got an X server & xterm to run under cygwin
>
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> This is what I'd like to send to the cygwin-xfree list, but I haven't been
> able to subscribe.
>
>
> The process of getting an X server to run under cygwin was painful.  I
> thought I'd tell the rest of you what I ended up doing that worked.
>
>
> 1) Download
> ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/sourceware/cygwin/latest/setup.exe and save
> it to a temporary folder.
>
> 2) execute setup.exe
>
> 3) tell it you want the root directory to be c:\ (must be \)
>
> 4) tell it you want to install from the internet (i)
>
> 5) select a mirror (I suggest #24, ftp.freesoftware.com) -- it'll take a
> while to download & install 24mb of .tgz's.
>
> (cygwin is now installed)
>
> 6) Download
> ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/sourceware/cygwin/xfree/contrib/X-s
> ervers-v-1.0.tar.bz2
> and save it to a temporary folder.
>
> 7) Open a dos shell
>
> 8) execute these commands:
>
> \bin\cygwin
> umount /usr/lib
> umount /usr/bin
> exit
>
> 9) cd to the directory containing X-servers-v-1.0.tar.bz2
>
> 10) execute these commands:
>
> \bin\bunzip2 X-servers-v1.0.tar.bz2
> cd \
>
> 11) Assuming you downloaded the X-servers file to
> c:\dl\X-servers-v-1.0.tar.bz2, run "\bin\tar -xvf /dl/cygwin/X-serv*"
>
>
> 12) in bash, umount 2 directories
>
> 13) rename c:\bin\cygwin1.dll cygwin1.bak
>
> 13) run c:\usr\bin\X11\startdx
>
>
> Notes:
>
> 1) If you don't do the umounts, the X server stuff will be put in the
> wrong place.  Why were those mount points set up that way ?  error is
> "Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/lib/X11/rgb'".
>
> 2) If you don't rename \bin\cygwin1.dll, xterm won't load -- error is like
> "*** shared region is corrupted.  inited 15 0 [main] ? 0
> lock_pinfo_for_update: rc 0, pinfo_mutex 0xFFFFFFFF, Win32 error 6" (even
> if you load it from the batch file).  What's up with these conflicting
> libs ?
>
> 3) I haven't gotten to testing how much stuff I broke in the process of
> making the X server & xterm work.  When they load, I get the error
> message:
>
> Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
> Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
> Warning: X locale modifiers not supported, using default
> Failed to open input method
>
> ..and it looks like twm's behavior/color properties aren't loaded.
>
> 5) The machine I'm using is running windows 98.
>
>
> I am extreemly happy to finally see X servers available for cygwin.  Now I
> can't wait for Debian GNU/Win32 :)
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