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Re: Newbie seeking help.
- From: bt tan <tanbengtat at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 18:13:06 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Newbie seeking help.
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Dear Mike,
Good day. I think that's help. Many Thanks.
Rgrds,
bt.
--- Michel Bardiaux <mbardiaux@peaktime.be> wrote:
> bt tan wrote:
>
> > --- bt tan <tanbengtat@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Dear Mike,
> >>
> >>Here's the output of ./configure
> >>
> [snip]
> >>checking for X... (cached) no
> >>checking for X11 header files... checking for X11
> >>libraries... checking for XCreateWindow in
> >>-lXwindow... (cached) no
> >>couldn't find any! Using -lX11.
> >>checking for main in -lXbsd... (cached) no
> >>
> >>It is indicating it couldn't locate the X11
> >>libraries, althought the path I've specified
> within
> >>the windows environment path to includes the
> >>following directory
> >>
> >
> >
>
/usr/X11R6/bin/usr/X11R6/lib/usr/X11R6/X11/lib/usr/X11R6/X11/bin
> >
> IIRC configure does *not* use the path to locate X
> (reason: finding the
> X libraries does not indicate where the X headers
> are!). Run
> './configure --help' and it is very likely there is
> some argument to
> tell where the X stuff is.
>
> Using the path to locate libraries is a Windowism. I
> suspect cygwin does
> *not* do that at all, even for a dlopen (but IANAG)
>
> HaND,
> --
> Michel Bardiaux
> Peaktime Belgium S.A. Bd. du Souverain, 191 B-1160
> Bruxelles
> Tel : +32 2 790.29.41
>
>
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