Re: Cygwin X-Windows & Crestron SimplWindows Cross Compiler clashing

[kdibble at hatfield dot homelinux dot com (Ken Dibble)]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:45:06AM -0600, Matthew Snow wrote:
> Neither will work while the other is installed.  For testing purposes:
> 
> Cygwin error message when running startxwin.bat:
> 
> A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit.
> Please open /tmp/XWin.log for more information.
> 
> Vendor:  The Cygwin/X Project
> Release:  6.8.2.0-4
> Contact:  cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com 
> XWin was started with the following command-line:
> 
> /cygdrive/d/Cygwin/usr/X11 -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error
> 
> 
> 
> SimplWindows error message while compiling a project:
> 
> Could not copy SIMPL + output file to [dir path][filename].spl.
> 
> 
> 
> I've noticed that both Cygwin and Crestron SimplWindows share the same
> directory in the registery keys which is HKEY_CURRENT-USER > Software >
> Cygnus Solutions >Cygwin.  The SimplWindows however adds the additional
> directory / to the registry so we have Cygwin > mounts V2 > /.  This
> contains keys:
> 
> (Default)
> flags
> native  which points to D:\Crestron\ColdFire
> 
> I've found that exporting the registry configurations for each and then
> importing them does nothing however.  I've also noticed that when I run
> Cygwin's setup.exe it thinks that D:\Crestron\ColdFire is the root
> directory I selected for the previous instal of Cygwin.
> 


This is just a WAG, but it sounds like Crestron is using cygwin for 
its' underlying functionality.

If this is true, you need to contact Crestron for support.
None of the cygwin people that I know of (as wonderfully helpful
as they are) are willing to support third party applications.


Regards,
Ken

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