minimal cygwin to run XFree86 ?

Alan Hourihane alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk
Fri Apr 27 08:27:00 GMT 2001


On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 04:42:58PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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 Users 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?
> 
It isn't, I've committed a fix that's in the CVS for this a few hours
ago.

Alan.



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