minimal cygwin to run XFree86 ?

Suhaib Siddiqi ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
Fri Apr 27 07:59:00 GMT 2001


Because several executable and dlls need it.  It was discussed on this list.
the cyz.dll
I am not sure.... it used to give missing symbol problems when it used to be
libz.dll.

Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Corinna Vinschen [ mailto:cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com ]
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 10:43 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: minimal cygwin to run XFree86 ?
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:47:56PM +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Reinald Gfuellner wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there a minimal cygwin-installation just to run XFree86 ?
> > > 
> > > The User´s Guide does not recoment to change the partlist.
> > > Still: Do I really have to do install 175 MB of cygwin to run the
> > > xserver ? Any experiences ?
> > > 
> > The minimal configuration for running _ONLY_ the server is
> > XWin.exe, libcygwin1.dll and libz.dll. Use this to experiment,
> 
> Why is there still a libz.dll in the X11 distro while cygz.dll
> is part of Cygwin for months now?
> 
> Corinna
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