[ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 1

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:20:08AM -0500, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
>> Subject: Re: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 1
>> 
>> Hi, I was under the impression that the xfree server was not 
>> meant to run
>> under W98.
>> Now I'm happy to hear that it does.
>> I've downloaded XWin.exe but as soon as I run it a message follows
>> stating that LIBZ.DLL is missing.
>> I've downloaded and installed (unsuccesfully) the xfree distribution
>> before I found out that it wasn;t supposed to run on W98 anyway.
>> I've found a libz.a a libz.dll.z and a libZlib.a in this distribution,
>> but evidently none of those is not what seems to be missing.
>> Could anyone explain to me what I need to test XWin.exe on my 
>> W98 machine?
>> 
>
>
>You need libz.dll from Cygwin/XFree86 distribution.  
>On OpenDX mailing list users have complain too about libz.dll and xpm.dll
>conflicts
>with xfree86.  Oneway to fix it, get ride of those from "contrib" directory,
>that
>is what I do, delete them after installing Cygwin, and use Xpm and libz.dll
>from Xfree86.

Why do you need a different libz.dll and xpm.dll?  Wouldn't it make
sense to use the one distributed with Cygwin?

I've Cc'ed Chuck with this email.  I'm sure he'll be interested in hearing
about problems with libz.dll.

cgf