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Re: Building XWin.exe
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:35:54 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: Building XWin.exe
- References: <BAY8-F45WfN3vSAMfKQ00001bce@hotmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Thomas Chadwick wrote:
> I've recently been motivated to tinker a bit with compiling XWin.exe on my
> own. After reading through the "Obtaining the Source Code" and "Native
> Compiling" sections of the Contributor's Guide, I'm left with the following
> question ...
>
> Do I rally need to download and build all of XFree86? Can't I just download
> the Xservers branch of the source tree, run "xmkmf -a" to generate the
> Makefiles and dependencies, and then compile just the XWin target?
The most recent source for XWin can be found in the xoncygwin CVS repository.
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xoncygwin
The code there consists only of a few libraries and XWin itself and should build
much faster than the whole XFree86 CVS.
bye
ago
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