[ITP] xlaunch (experimental)

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

On 2012-03-11 12:38, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>
> xlaunch is a simple Windows GUI tool for starting XWin.
>
> xlaunch was written by Alexander Gottwald in 2005, and is included with the
> Xming and VcxSrvX Windows X servers (which derive from the same upstream
> sources as the cygwin X server).
>
> I'd like to package this as:
>
> - It simplifies launching the X server with custom options, avoiding the
> complex instructions in FAQ 4.2 [1].  It also avoids the forward-compatibility
> problems those instructions might have.
>
> - It also makes it possible to automate starting XWin and a remote X client
> without writing custom scripts.
>
> - It might help to make running complex desktop environments in windowed mode
> work out-of-the-box.
>
> I've done some work to make it functional on cygwin, but it probably needs a
> bit more work to be truly useful.
>
> setup.hint:
>
> category: X11
> requires: libxml2 libX11_6 libstdc++6 bash mintty keychain xorg-server
> sdesc: "GUI tool for configuring and starting the XWin X server"
> ldesc: "GUI tool for configuring and starting the XWin X server"
>
> files:
>
> http://www.dronecode.org.uk/cygwin/release/xlaunch/xlaunch-20120311-1.tar.bz2
> http://www.dronecode.org.uk/cygwin/release/xlaunch/xlaunch-20120311-1-src.tar.bz2

FTBFS:

1) The default HtmlHelp SDK location is incorrect for Win64 systems (the 
SDK is 32bit, so installs by default under "C:\Program Files (x86)").

2) You need to add a rule to build xlaunch.hhp:

Making all in htmlhelp
make[1]: Entering directory `${B}/htmlhelp'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `${S}/xlaunch.hhp', needed by 
`xlaunch.chm'.  Stop.

3) Where is setupreg.sh?


Yaakov