Mail Archives: cygwin/1999/06/07/13:14:42
Hello DX-users on Win32/Cygwin platforms,
thanks to S. Siddiqi's and others' efforts, only a few days after DX went open source, there already
is a (precompiled binaries) Win32 version of DX4.0.1 available for d/l, which by itself is a Good Thing.
Also, there are Cygwin-B20.1, EGCS-1.1.2, X11R6.4/LessTif 0.88.x and Mesa-3.0 for Cygwin
packages out there so everything needed to build DX by oneself is on the Web. So far, so fine.
But... having wondered for some time why I couldn't even get the precompiled DX release (from a previous d/l) to run
under Win95/Cygwin (that is, using its GUI), I was shocked to read the following lines in the readme accompanying
the DX4.0.1-binary distribution mentioned in the original message included below (thank God I read this before
attempting to download ~37MB that would probably not have worked for me):
Quoting from the readme:
> [...] You need a X11R6.3 compliant X server. At the moment no
> free X11R6.x compliant servers are available. Do not waste your time
> trying the freeware MI/X server. It is X11R5 compliant and will not
> work. [...]
> First start the X-server. Then, open a DOS Shell [...]
So, if I understand this correctly, there is no way of running DX *with its GUI* for
those Win9x users who don't possess a working X11R6.3..6.4-compliant X-server.
This, AFAIK, applies to virtually all of the Win9x-out of the box- user base,
and is IMHO also the worst case scenario for any potential DX-users on those platforms-
DX is pretty useless *without its GUI*, right?!
As all the packages needed for DX on a Win9x-platform are open source/freeware/GPLed software/
public domain, I would of course be willing to pay a *moderate* amount for an X-server license.
However, commercial UNIX packages are not always reasonably priced... or are they?
Is there any inexpensive remedy? Do I have to shell out lots of $$ for WinNT4.0
(where there presumably are commercial X server packages, which probably won't be very affordable
either) or what else can I do?
If you know of any working solutions (first-hand experience preferred) under Win9x/Cygwin, please
mail me or *better: post it to the opendx-general list* as this question will most certainly reappear more than once
as the OpenDX audience grows.
Any posting should contain product name/release version/date, company/vendor, price (single-user license),
where to get it (USA/Europe) (like address, web site, phone no. of retailer, ... whatever you may have)
and a short comment on pros and cons
(like stability, performance, hw/sw requirements, ease of use, degree of compliance to the X APIs,
(un)supported features, ...)
Thanks in advance,
Martin.
mailto://thedarkglows AT geocities DOT com
Original message follows:
Von: Suhaib M. Siddiqi [SMTP:Ssiddiqi AT InspirePharm DOT Com]
Gesendet am: Montag, 7. Juni 1999 14:35
An: opendx-general AT watson DOT ibm DOT com
Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Betreff: [opendx-general] OpenDX Windoz
I have updated OpenDX binaries for Cygwin/Windows at:
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Forum/6298/
The new binaries have cdf,hdf and netcdf support. The startup scripts had been fixed.
Please read the README.TXT, after extracting the archive.
Suhaib
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