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RE: no screen
- To: <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: no screen
- From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 07:01:45 -0500
Thanks.
PS: Rob,
How about adding in FAQ?
Delete /usr/include/X11 which gets installed by tcl/tk during cygwin
installation.
These are deprecated X11R5 6 headers, not even complete set and caused
problems
during X clients compilation.
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kris Thielemans [mailto:kris.thielemans@csc.mrc.ac.uk]
> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 6:45 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: RE: no screen
>
>
>
> well, in actual fact, it was because I had older X11 include
> files lying
> around. Not sure if I should bother the mailing list with
> this trivia, but
> just in case anybody else is as stupid as I am.
>
> Sorry.
>
> > I'm very sorry. The problem disappeared after a complete
> > recompilation. I must have had some old .o file lying around. It
> > works nicely now! Apologies.
>
> >>> My program essentially starts as follows:
> >>>
> >>> Display * SCX_display = XOpenDisplay ("");
> ><snip>
> ><> And there I'm stuck: ScreenCount(SCX_display)==0.
>