RE: Motif and Xt Widgets using Cygwin20/NT

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

link to libXm.a and if you do not have it get it from www.lesstif.org

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Poor, Jeff
> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 12:40 PM
> To: 'cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com'
> Subject: Motif and Xt Widgets using Cygwin20/NT
>
>
> I'm attempting to port a large GUI application (written in C) that
> originally ran on an Alpha/VMS system onto a PC running NT4.0.
> By no means
> am I a Motif/X11 expert, but I have successfully ported this
> application to
> a SUN/Solaris platform with very little effort.
>
> I've installed Cygwin with the Cygwin_B20_full.exe, and have used the
> cygwin-xfree-x11r6.4-cygwin-B20.1.tar file to get the latest X11 & Motif.
> (Note, I danced around quite a bit getting correct version that worked,
> DLLs, etc.)
>
> At this point, a large number of the Motif Widget classes aren't
> being found
> .... for instance, when I go to link I see things such as:
>
>   undefined reference to `xmTextWidgetClass'
>   undefined reference to `xmSeparatorWidgetClass'
>   undefined reference to `xmArrowButtonWidgetClass'
>   undefined reference to `xmArrowButtonWidgetClass'
>   undefined reference to `xmSeparatorWidgetClass'
>   undefined reference to `xmTextWidgetClass'
>   undefined reference to `XmTextSetString'
>
> Each of these classes are defined as "extern" with the *.h (header) files
> under /X11R6.4/lesstif/Motif1.2/include (and Motif2.0).
>
> There are also some totally undefined functions (Xshm, Xmalloc, Xcalloc,
> XWidthofScreen, ...) that are present within VMS and Solaris, but don't
> appear anywhere in the Xfree bundle.
>
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> Also, in the link phase I get the following messages which are X11 related
> but not specific to the above mission objects:
>
>    /.../X11R6.4/lib/libXt.a(Shell.o)(.text+0x35aa):Shell.c: undefined
> reference to `IceConnectionNumber'
>    /.../X11R6.4/lib/libXt.a(Shell.o)(.text+0x3c44):Shell.c: undefined
> reference to `IceProcessMessages'
>
> Any leads on what these anomalies are caused by?  THANKS!!!!
>
>
> Jeff Poor
> Northrop Grumman
> Airborne Ground Surveillance and Battle Management Systems
> Melbourne, Florida
> (321) 726-7335   poorje@mail.northgrum.com