Re: problems with libX11.a

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Mark,

Well you have one problem that is immediate:

You need the XFree86-prog package.

The XFree86-prog package is installed via Cygwin's setup.exe program.


You possibly have another problem that may be secondary:

If MicroWindows is trying to link against libX11.a explicitly, rather 
than the usual -lX11, then you will need to fix the build files for 
MicroWindows to tell it to just link against -lX11.  Our linker will 
figure out that -lX11 really means to link against libX11.dll.a.  But, 
you shouldn't look into this possible problem until you have 
XFree86-prog installed and have tried building again.

I hope that helps,

Harold

Mark Mussetter wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I'm running Cygwin on a Windows 2000 machine and I'm trying to get 
> MicroWindows going.  My problem is that I'm getting the following error:
> ***
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a', needed by 
> `/microwindows/microwindows-0.90/src/bin/nano-X'.  Stop.
> ***
>
> I do have "libX11.dll" but can't find the "libX11.a" library anywhere.  
> We've updated our Cygwin this morning using the Cygwin setup utility so 
> I think we are as current as we can be.  We've done a search on the 
> entire Cygwin directory and "libX11.a" is nowhere to be found.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction to solving this problem?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help,
>
>
> Mark Mussetter
> Link Communications, Inc.
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