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RE: questions on DISPLAY and libX11.a
- To: "'Christopher Faylor'" <cgf at redhat dot com>, <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: questions on DISPLAY and libX11.a
- From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 06:51:57 -0500
- Cc: "'John Fortin'" <fortinj at attglobal dot net>
John, what is your opinion? I am actually getting frustrated with
SourceForge.Net.
Most (almost all) of the mails for help now go unanswered?
A lot of Win32 users are interested in MSVC support. I would take Chris
offer,
if you do not mind and move the project to Sources.redhat.com?
Chris, project is open source. Actually, it is a nice complimentary project
which provides missing VC++ support to developers for X11.
Suhaib
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 08:18:12PM -0500, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> >Did you try?
> >
> >SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 (from a DOS Shell)
> >
> >or export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 (from a bash shell if you
> are starting from
> >a bash shell).
> >
> >However, startxwin.bat, should set display for you? Are you
> sure X-server
> >is starting and you are getting an X-desktop? If not, xterm will not
> >display.
> >
> >Unfortunately no, you cannot link to libX11.a using MSVC.
> It is a gcc
> >library for Cygwin. If you are interested for libraries for
> MSVC, you can
> >check out http://win32-xfree.sourceforge.net. Unfortunately,
> >sourceforge.net is getting lousy. They used to be well
> organized but now
> >since last 2 months, my several requests to reset the CVS so
> I can replace
> >X11R6.4 code with X11R6.5.1 code had gone un-answered. I
> might send them a
> >couple of more reminders. In case of no response I would
> call the project
> >"DEAD" and replace the URL with a "DEAD PROJECT" banner. In
> the mean time
> >you could grab the X11R6.4 libs for MSVC if you wish.
>
> Do you want to host the project on sources.redhat.com? I can
> always offer
> space there. It doesn't matter if it's a cygwin project as
> long as it is
> an open source project.
>
> cgf
>