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Re: no screen
Its in the faq. I haven't updated the main page yet. I'll try to do that
tonight.
Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 11:01 PM
Subject: RE: no screen
>
> Thanks.
>
> PS: Rob,
> How about adding in FAQ?
>
> Delete /usr/include/X11 which gets installed by tcl/tk during cygwin
> installation.
> These are deprecated X11R5 6 headers, not even complete set and caused
> problems
> during X clients compilation.
>
> Suhaib
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kris Thielemans [mailto:kris.thielemans@csc.mrc.ac.uk]
> > Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 6:45 AM
> > To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> > Subject: RE: no screen
> >
> >
> >
> > well, in actual fact, it was because I had older X11 include
> > files lying
> > around. Not sure if I should bother the mailing list with
> > this trivia, but
> > just in case anybody else is as stupid as I am.
> >
> > Sorry.
> >
> > > I'm very sorry. The problem disappeared after a complete
> > > recompilation. I must have had some old .o file lying around. It
> > > works nicely now! Apologies.
> >
> > >>> My program essentially starts as follows:
> > >>>
> > >>> Display * SCX_display = XOpenDisplay ("");
> > ><snip>
> > ><> And there I'm stuck: ScreenCount(SCX_display)==0.
> >
>
>