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Re: Gtk+ & cygwin problem


On 20/01/2010 16:36, Richard Dickinson wrote:
Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Some googling would have shown you what this means. You need to be running an X server and set the DISPLAY variable in order to use GTK+ (or any other X11 GUI).


This being a Cygwin/X question, it really belongs on the Cygwin/X list; redirecting accordingly.

And on my Vista machine I have gtkmm for Windows setup from which I can run
Gtk-demo from my Vista cmd prompt

GTKmm for Windows is just that -- for WINDOWS. Cygwin's GTK+ is a *NIX/X11 version and needs a Cygwin-built GTKmm, which is available from Cygwin Ports.


(but cannot compile gtk+ code with from Vista cmd
prompt as I get 'access denied' error message?!).

'/usr/bin/gcc' is a symlink, which Windows itself doesn't understand. Cygwin commands are generally meant to be run from a Cygwin environment (in this case, bash, or another shell of your choice).


> I have cygwin/bin in my path& gtkmm/bin also.

This is asking for problems. You're better off keeping extra Win32 components out of your Cygwin PATH.


Yaakov Cygwin/X

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