From: grantl AT deerinet DOT nb DOT ca ("Grant Leslie") Subject: X-windows on cygwin 12 Feb 1997 23:55:44 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: "GNU-WIN32" X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1160 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com I have some limited success in compiling certain X clients on cygwin32 and a few posted a few screen capture of those programs running on my Win95 machine on my ftp server ftp://ftp.deerinet.nb.ca/pub/gnu-win32 in case anyone was interesting. I would love to know how much success anyone else has been having in this vien. The biggest problem I have run into in 'exec'ing other clients from within the window managers which I've compiled. They all seem to exhibit the same behavior, which would be due to them all being based on fvwm it would seem. I have tried to work around this problem, without success so far. I just get either an cygwin exception, access violation error (which I have up until now, found to be mostly when a program tries to open a none exsistant file), from /bin/sh, during the execv function. There is plenty of memory etc availible since I can start the same program from Xfm, or the command line immediately afterwards. I don't yet know why they don't work, since I have compiled and run Xfm1.32 and it has no problems when exec ing other clients. I don't expect anyone to try and explain to me the finer points forking and execing, but, if someone could point me to a nice web resource which describes this I would be very grateful. And if anyone has been successful in making these work, I'd really love to hear how they did it. - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".