RE: building xwin packages

[Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at yahoo dot com>]

Harold,

Before you go, don't forget to post the script :).  Thanks in advance and
have a pleasant trip!

Cheers,
Nicholas
--- Harold Hunt <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com> wrote:
> Nicholas,
> 
> > Is there anything different which must be done now to cross compile
> that
> > wasn't included in your directions or has changed since you wrote
> them?
> 
> I haven't done a cross compile in a couple of months now.  I just
> deleted by
> Cygwin cross compiler off of my Linux machine, so I'd have to spend a
> bit of
> time to do a test cross compile right now.  I'm a little strapped for
> time
> right now and we're going out of town for the weekend, so it'll have to
> wait
> until next month sometime.
> 
> On the other hand, I do recall that if you do not pass the flags
> *exactly*
> as documented the build process will usually bomb at imake.  You should
> be
> using the command like so (all on one line, but I wrapped it for
> readability):
> [harold@MyCrossHost std]$ make World
> BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS="-D__CYGWIN__ -Ulinux -DCrossCompiling=1"
> IMAKE_DEFINES="-D__CYGWIN__ -Ulinux" > World.log 2>&1
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Harold
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nicholas Wourms [mailto:nwourms@yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:09 PM
> > To: Harold L Hunt
> > Subject: Re: building xwin packages
> >
> >
> > Harold,
> >
> > I am quite aware of the the trias involved with building Xfree (I just
> > went trough it a few months ago on OSX ;)).  Given that, I was
> attempting
> > to follow the directions on in the contributor's guide regarding
> building
> > Xfree.  Unfortunately matters have been complicated twofold, as I am
> quite
> > dissappointed with the performance of compilation on my windows
> machine.
> > Therefore I was setting up a cross-compile environment on my suse 7.3
> > linux box per your directions.  This is where I want to ask a
> question:
> >
> > Is there anything different which must be done now to crosscompile
> that
> > wasn't included in your directions or has changed since you wrote
> them?
> >
> > I will follow the steps below and see if my result is different, but
> for
> > some reason when I followed your directions (before you sent this
> mail) in
> > the howto and double checked my process, the make process bombs out on
> > imake.c, complaining about a "imake.c:395: parse error before `1'". 
> From
> > what I see crosscompiling needs different defines?  I'm not
> sure...despite
> > that my will is strong and my desire to recompile is kindled by the
> desire
> > to help in testing kde.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nicholas
> >
> > --- Harold L Hunt <huntharo@msu.edu> wrote:
> > > Nicholas,
> > >
> > > Building the XFree86 packages for Cygwin is not for the faint of
> heart.
> > > It
> > > takes possibly many hours (especially for first timers) and there is
> a
> > > lot
> > > that can go wrong.  With that in mind, I'll point you to two of the
> > > three
> > > steps for building the packages, and I'll post the packaging script
> > > tonight
> > > when I am on the machine that has it.  I had posted the script
> before
> > > but the
> > > machine it was on is no longer accessible, so I'll have to put it
> > > somewhere
> > > else.  Be aware that you can start the first two steps and by the
> time
> > > that I
> > > post the packaging script in about 8 hours you still won't have
> built
> > > XFree86...
> > >
> > > 1) Follow the instructions in the Cygwin/XFree86 Contributor's Guide
> for
> > > downloading the source for XFree86 and building it.  You'll want to
> grab
> > > the
> > > `xf-4_2-branch' of the source code.  I think you would do that with:
> > >
> > > cvs checkout -r xf-4_2-branch xc
> > >
> > > Notice that some of the patches to the latest Xxserv package were
> not
> > > applied
> > > to the xf-4_2-branch (I don't think Alan keeps an xf-4_2-branch tree
> > > around)
> > > so you'll need to grab the default branch and copy the files from
> > > xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xwin/ into your 4_2 tree.
> > >
> > > The relevant steps in the Contributor's Guide are here:
> > >
> > > http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/cg/prog-build-native.html
> > >
> > >
> > > 2) After building XFree86 you'll need to create the XFree86
> packages,
> > > which is
> > > very difficult.  I've attempted to create a Cygwin-specific version
> of
> > > the
> > > instructions for this at:
> > >
> > > http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/cg/prog-distribution.html
> > >
> > >
> > > 3) Now you need to convert the XFree86 packages into Cygwin
> packages.
> > > This is
> > > done with the build.sh script that Ian Burrell wrote and I modified.
> > > I'll
> > > post this later tonight, but the basic idea is that you copy the
> XFree86
> > > packages into a directory with build.sh, then run the script.  It
> takes
> > > about
> > > 5 to 10 minutes on my 1200 Athlon with a pretty quick hard drive, so
> I
> > > wouldn't be surprised if it took up to an hour on older hardware.
> > >
> > >
> > > You'd better be really sure that you actually want to do this before
> you
> > > put
> > > any time into it.  There is a reason that XFree86 was not
> installable
> > > via
> > > Cygwin's setup.exe for almost a year after we started using the
> XFree86
> > > packaging script.
> > >
> > >
> > > Good luck,
> > >
> > > Harold
> > >
> > > Nicholas Wourms <nwourms@yahoo.com> said:
> > >
> > > > Harold,
> > > >
> > > > How do you build the packages for use with setup.exe?  Do you use
> a
> > > script
> > > > or do you do it by hand?  If it is a script, would you post it
> please?
> > >
> > > > The reason I ask is because I want to recompile X and add it to my
> > > local
> > > > install directory with upset.  Thanks in advance!
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Nicholas
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