cygwin-xfree does not work!! (fwd)

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

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> From: A Sengupta [ mailto:osegu@iitk.ac.in ] 
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 1:24 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: cygwin-xfree does not work!! (fwd)
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> 
> 	Sir: Further to my mail of last night (reproduced below), I have
> now downloaded, unzipped and untarred X403src-1(and 2).tar.bz2 to the
> directory xc in c:\cygwin. I find that the usual ./configure 
> etc does not

GNU ./configure is not "usual" for X Windows software.  
Do you mind reading FAQ first at http://xfree86.cygwin.com .

Bye
Suhaib


> work here. It would be greatly appreciated if you advise me how to
> install.
> 	Thank you very much. 
> 
> 	
> 	A. Sengupta. 
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 23:20:12 +0530 (IST)
> From: A Sengupta <osegu@iitk.ac.in>
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: cygwin-xfree does not work!!
> 
> 
> 	Sir: I have installed cygwin-xfree carefully following the
> instructions given and have installed xfree86 from the binaries as
> directed. However on trying to run startxwin.bat I get the error "A
> required .DLL file, LIBZ.DLL, was not found". In fact all the 
> .exe files
> in c:\cygwin\usr\x11r6\bin have this problem with respect to some .DLL
> file; for most of them it is cygwin1.dll. What is wrong?
> 	Thank you for your reply. 
> 
> 	A. Sengupta. 
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>     Department of Mechanical Engineering   **  Tel: 
> 091-0512-597035 (O)
>     Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur  **               
> -598705 (H)
>     Kanpur 208016, India.                  **  Fax: 
> 091-0512-597408/590007
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