Comments on: An update to running aterm (or any other X app) rootless, without a DOS console on Cygwin

By: vivin

vivin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:35:21 +0000

@BMatt I believe it's C:\cygwin\bin or C:\cygwin\usr\bin Where are you running aterm from? Are you trying it from the batch file? Also, did you have any errors in the build process, or did everything install properly? You need to make sure that after configure, you run make and then make install.

By: BMatt

BMatt — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:54:40 +0000

Thanks, I have a couple more questions. I can navigate to /usr/bin within Cygwin, but not in Explorer. I want to get there in Explorer so I can look through the files easier (is it just in C:\cygwin\bin\ ?). When I try using the command aterm, it gives me a command not found error. Is this not the command to run it? Thanks again!

By: vivin

vivin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:04:16 +0000

@BMatt 1) When you do a make install it should put the binaries in /usr/bin. 2) If you were able to build everything successfully then all your X development stuff probably has been installed. 3) Try running them - just double click on them. You can also make a link to them on your desktop so you can launch your terminal just with a click. You probably want to put the xwin.bat as part of your startup so that X starts when you log into Windows. Then all you need to do is launch the aterm.bat file to open your terminal.

By: BMatt

BMatt — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:12:42 +0000

I have a few questions about this:
1) Once I compiled all of these, where are the binaries? I put the tar.gz/tar.bz2′s in the /home/smith directory, and compiled everything there.

2) I don’t know if I have all the X things installed… a different tutorial somewhere said there were more packages to install with X, but they weren’t there.

3) What do I do with the .bat files once I’ve made them?

Thanks!
-BMatt

By: vivin

vivin — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:19:38 +0000

Hmmm…

What other development packages are there under x11? I’m on a Linux box right now so I can’t check. Those symbols seem to be part of Xlib. Did you install xinit?

By: Cihan

Cihan — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:12:13 +0000

According to the cygwin package list http://www.cygwin.com/packages/ xorg-x11-devel seems to be obsolete. It is not listed in the cygwin setup list anymore also.

By: vivin

vivin — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:02:27 +0000

No problem

I think I may have forgotten to list xorg-x11-devel. Let me know if installing that package works. I’m pretty sure it has to do with an X development library since it looks like gcc isn’t able to figure out what those symbols mean.

By: Cihan

Cihan — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:57:18 +0000

Hi Vivin,

Wow, thanks for the quick response.

Yes, I did install libX11-devel. Is it possible that I am missing another library that you did not list above?

Thanks a lot.

Cihan

By: vivin

vivin — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:56:32 +0000

Hey Cihan,

I think it might be related to libX11-devel. Did you install that package from Cygwin setup?

By: Cihan

Cihan — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:52:51 +0000

Hi Vivin,

Thanks for this helpful article. I get the following error when compiling libAfterImage. Any ideas?

Thanks.
Cihan

gcc -O3 -DNO_DEBUG_OUTPUT -Wall -I.. -c ascompose.c
In file included from /usr/include/X11/extensions/shape.h:62,
from ascompose.c:47:
/usr/local/include/X11/Xutil.h:93: error: parse error before "Bool"
/usr/local/include/X11/Xutil.h:96: error: parse error before "icon_pixmap"