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Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 22:19:41 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: Please help
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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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