Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/12/23/01:24:33
Ramon,
I took a quick look at the Cygwin support page
(<http://bioinformatics.org/ghemical/cygwin.html>) on the Web site you
mentioned (I trust you did the same, right?).
Ghemical is a X-based application, which means that before you'll be able
to either compiler or run this software you'll need to install the
XFree86/Cygwin packages (available via the same installer you presumably
used to get your existing Cygw.
Furthermore, according the aforementioned Cygwin support page for Ghemical:
"At the moment (in March 2002) there are no ready GNOME binary packages for
Cygwin, so in addition to Ghemical, you also have to compile a (minimal)
GNOME environment. ..."
To be honest, I don't know what is the status of Gnome for XFree86/Cygwin,
or whether that statement is still valid, but I suspect that it and the
instructions also included on that page are probably close to the correct.
Assuming you just perform an ordinary install of all of Cygwin, including
XFree86/Cygwin, using the Cygwin Setup.exe installer, you'll probably have
a correct Cygwin installation, as far as it goes. That won't get you Gnome,
so for that part you'll have to follow the instructions on the Ghemical
Cygwin instructions page and / or ask for more specific help on the
Cygwin-XFree mailing list.
Good luck.
Randall Schulz
At 18:50 2002-12-22, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Ramon Boyd wrote:
>
> > Good afternoon
> >
> > I have found a really useful software package for chemistry modeling but
> > I need to install and run Cygwin to use it. I don't understand how to
> > run Cygwin. Presently, I am running Windows XP on my system. I
> > understand the premise behind Cygwin as stated on the website.
> > However, I find the list of compilation instructions confusing. I
> > appreciate the level of detail the website and detail with which the
> > Cygwin program must run. I am interested in focusing my time on running
> > Ghemical. I am less interested in knowing everything about Linux based
> > systems. That I leave to the experts. Could you please tell me how to
> > install Cygwin properly? I understand that I need Gnome. Could you
> > also provide a hint at how I am to compile Ghemical? I would greatly
> > appreciate any assistance you could provide.
> >
> > http://bioinformatics.org/ghemical/download.html
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ramon
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