Cygwin/X - Development - XWin Server

Last updated: 2005-07-06 15:00 MEST (Alexander Gottwald)

Contributions to the XWin Server are more than welcome.

News

• 2005-07-06 - xorg-x11-xwin-6.8.2.0-4 is available. See the Change Log for details.
• 2005-07-04 - xorg-x11-xwin-6.8.2.0-3 is available. See the Change Log for details.
• 2005-04-26 - xorg-x11-xwin-6.8.2.0-2 is available. See the Change Log for details.
• 2005-02-23 - xorg-x11-xwin-6.8.2.0-1 is available. See the Change Log for details.

To-Do List

See the Cygwin/X To-Do List for a list of open tasks for the XWin Server.

Downloading and Installing an XWin Server Binary

To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Once you've downloaded setup.exe, run it and select "X11" and then click on the appropriate field until the above announced version number appears if it is not displayed already.

Source Code

Cygwin/X server source and selected client sources are distributed with X.org's CVS tree hosted on freedesktop.org.

Use your pdx.freedesktop.org shell account to access /cvs/xorg with ssh, or use anonymous CVS:

$ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@pdx.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xorg login
CVS password: <hit return>
$ cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anoncvs@pdx.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xorg co -r CYGWIN xc

If you just want to look at the Cygwin/X source, use the View CVS interface to the X.org tree. Most of the Cygwin/X-specific code is in the xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xwin directory.

See the Cygwin/X Contributor's Guide for information that will help you contribute to the Cygwin/X project, such as compilation tutorials, compilation tips, expected build times, overviews of the technologies involved, and a full bibliography.