* an x environment
@ 1997-08-04 21:02 Steve o
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From: Steve o @ 1997-08-04 21:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gnu-win32
Hi,
Having recently been transplanted from an X environment to
winnt, I am homesick and wish to recreate my old desktop.
My plan was enabled when Sergey ported rxvt, well, not just
ported but added a much needed /dev/tty interface. wow.
fvwm2 ported without a hitch.
xemacs was quite a different story. I managed to get
temacs.exe to compile, but only after I hacked out what seemed
like a very useless, and very system dependent code, called
unexec.c. Turns out, to my surprise, temacs reads itself
and dumps out an executable copy, all via unexec. hmm.
I poked around, looked at what emacs-19.34 did, tried a
couple things, but really, I was out of my leaque. Are .exe
files in COFF format, or elf? What happens in crt0.o that
has to be accounted for? Can I mix the Win32'isms in unexnt.c
with the un-adulterated xemacs code? Maybe I could lift
some .exe generating code from ld?
So for now I've given up, but maybe by posting this,
some guru will become intrigued and, while waiting for
a compile, will patch unexec.c and casually mention
it in an email to this list.
As a side note, I used "configure i386-cygwin-linux" to
get configure to work. This got me thinking that since the
cygwin API is apporaching that of Linux, it may be possible
to write a loader that could execute native linux binaries
under cygwin, a la the WINE project only reversed.
Imagine, the whole Red-hat distribution ported to cygwin,
and no .exe extensions...
-steve
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* Re: an x environment
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@ 1997-08-05 11:23 ` Steve o
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From: Steve o @ 1997-08-05 11:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Michael Anderson; +Cc: gnu-win32
Michael Anderson wrote:
>
> Steve o wrote:
> >
> > fvwm2 ported without a hitch.
>
> Hi Steve:
>
> I've been using bash windows and vi for my work and wondering just how I
> might get X and fvwm working. Can you tell me the steps needed to do
> this? Which X server are you using and what other software needs to be
> installed? Config files? If you posted the process to the newsgroup, it
> might help out others wondering how to do this.
I am using Hummingbird's Exceed X Server,
http://www.hummingbird.com/products/exceed/
I set the environment variable DISPLAY=:0
I installed the "X client libs for NT" from
http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/
Fvwm needs xpm so I got that from:
ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/libraries/xpm-3.4j.tar.gz
Fvwm can be obtained from:
http://www.hpc.uh.edu/fvwm/
The steps to install are:
tar -xvzf package.tar.gz
cd package
xmkmf -a
make
make install
Sometimes the install target in the Makefile will have:
cp foo /usr/local/bin/foo
These need to be changed to:
cp foo.exe /usr/local/bin/foo.exe
There are some sample .fvwm2rc files included in the distribution,
copy one of these to your home directory.
If you run fvwm, you'll want to set the Exceed
Xconfig->Window Mode->window manager to X.
You'll need Sergey's coolview and remote.tar.gz.
-steve
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* Re: an x environment
@ 1997-08-13 1:08 Jerome Gay
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From: Jerome Gay @ 1997-08-13 1:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bub; +Cc: gnu-win32
Steve-
After reading your messages, I tried to setup fvwm2 under gnu-win32, it
compiled without any major problems, I also compiled and installed pixmap...
fvwm2 works fine except I get the message (at the beginning) :
[FVWM][executeModule]: <<ERROR>> No such module 'PixmapPath' in ModulePath
'/usr/X11R6.3/lib/X11/fvwm2'
and I don't get these nice buttons on the fvwm2 buttonbar...
I found out that the pixmap distribution does not include any .pm files....
Where can I get some pm files to be used for buttons ?
Where can I get some nice fvwm2rc examples ?
Jerome "ZoSo"
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve o <bub@io.com>
To: Michael Anderson <mka@redes.int.com.mx>
Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com <gnu-win32@cygnus.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 06, 1997 4:25 AM
Subject: Re: an x environment
>Michael Anderson wrote:
>>
>> Steve o wrote:
>> >
>> > fvwm2 ported without a hitch.
>>
>> Hi Steve:
>>
>> I've been using bash windows and vi for my work and wondering just how I
>> might get X and fvwm working. Can you tell me the steps needed to do
>> this? Which X server are you using and what other software needs to be
>> installed? Config files? If you posted the process to the newsgroup, it
>> might help out others wondering how to do this.
>
>I am using Hummingbird's Exceed X Server,
> http://www.hummingbird.com/products/exceed/
>I set the environment variable DISPLAY=:0
>
>I installed the "X client libs for NT" from
> http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/
>
>Fvwm needs xpm so I got that from:
> ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/libraries/xpm-3.4j.tar.gz
>
>Fvwm can be obtained from:
> http://www.hpc.uh.edu/fvwm/
>
>The steps to install are:
> tar -xvzf package.tar.gz
> cd package
> xmkmf -a
> make
> make install
>
>Sometimes the install target in the Makefile will have:
> cp foo /usr/local/bin/foo
>These need to be changed to:
> cp foo.exe /usr/local/bin/foo.exe
>
>There are some sample .fvwm2rc files included in the distribution,
>copy one of these to your home directory.
>
>If you run fvwm, you'll want to set the Exceed
> Xconfig->Window Mode->window manager to X.
>
>You'll need Sergey's coolview and remote.tar.gz.
>-steve
>-
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>"gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".
>
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