XFree86 for Cygwin (Good News)???

[Mumit Khan]

"Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com> writes:
> Here is the first good news :-)
> 
> I managed to compile XFree86, fully screen X-Server code under Cygwin.  The
> executable are not doing core dump, SO FAR!!!; so, it is the best news at
> the moment.

And good news it is! Congratulations.

> 
> bash-2.02$ ./XGGI
> Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'
> LibGG: unable to open lib: dlopen: Win32 error 126

This translates to "the specified module could not be found", and is
caused by a DLL/shared-library not being available. Either the file
does not exist, or it's not in the PATH nor in the current directory.

> WARNING: previous dlopen of C:\usr\local\lib\ggi\display\svgalib.so wasn't
> corre
> ctly performed

This is a bug and is fixed in the Cygwin development sources.

> LibGG: unable to open lib: dlopen: Win32 error 126
> WARNING: previous dlopen of C:\usr\local\lib\ggi\display\aa.so wasn't
> correctly
> performed
> LibGG: unable to open lib: dlopen: Win32 error 126
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Unable to open LibGGI visual: "(NULL)"

Don't know what this is.

Regards,
Mumit