Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <01BEB119.4C48F0E0.gwardar@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de> From: Martin Kaim Reply-To: "gwardar AT studbox DOT uni-stuttgart DOT de" To: "'opendx-general AT watson DOT ibm DOT com'" Cc: "cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com" Subject: [opendx-general] X-Server for Win9x platform - Where from; how much? Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 19:08:07 +0200 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-Mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com