building xwin packages

[Nicholas Wourms]

Harold,

I am quite aware of the the trias involved with building Xfree (I just
went trough it a few months ago on OSX ;)).  Given that, I was attempting
to follow the directions on in the contributor's guide regarding building
Xfree.  Unfortunately matters have been complicated twofold, as I am quite
dissappointed with the performance of compilation on my windows machine. 
Therefore I was setting up a cross-compile environment on my suse 7.3
linux box per your directions.  This is where I want to ask a question:

Is there anything different which must be done now to crosscompile that
wasn't included in your directions or has changed since you wrote them?

I will follow the steps below and see if my result is different, but for
some reason when I followed your directions (before you sent this mail) in
the howto and double checked my process, the make process bombs out on
imake.c, complaining about a "imake.c:395: parse error before `1'".  From
what I see crosscompiling needs different defines?  I'm not sure...despite
that my will is strong and my desire to recompile is kindled by the desire
to help in testing kde.

Cheers,
Nicholas

--- Harold L Hunt <huntharo@msu.edu> wrote:
> Nicholas,
> 
> Building the XFree86 packages for Cygwin is not for the faint of heart. 
> It
> takes possibly many hours (especially for first timers) and there is a
> lot
> that can go wrong.  With that in mind, I'll point you to two of the
> three
> steps for building the packages, and I'll post the packaging script
> tonight
> when I am on the machine that has it.  I had posted the script before
> but the
> machine it was on is no longer accessible, so I'll have to put it
> somewhere
> else.  Be aware that you can start the first two steps and by the time
> that I
> post the packaging script in about 8 hours you still won't have built
> XFree86...
> 
> 1) Follow the instructions in the Cygwin/XFree86 Contributor's Guide for
> downloading the source for XFree86 and building it.  You'll want to grab
> the
> `xf-4_2-branch' of the source code.  I think you would do that with:
> 
> cvs checkout -r xf-4_2-branch xc
> 
> Notice that some of the patches to the latest Xxserv package were not
> applied
> to the xf-4_2-branch (I don't think Alan keeps an xf-4_2-branch tree
> around)
> so you'll need to grab the default branch and copy the files from
> xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xwin/ into your 4_2 tree.
> 
> The relevant steps in the Contributor's Guide are here:
> 
> http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/cg/prog-build-native.html
> 
> 
> 2) After building XFree86 you'll need to create the XFree86 packages,
> which is
> very difficult.  I've attempted to create a Cygwin-specific version of
> the
> instructions for this at:
> 
> http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/cg/prog-distribution.html
> 
> 
> 3) Now you need to convert the XFree86 packages into Cygwin packages. 
> This is
> done with the build.sh script that Ian Burrell wrote and I modified. 
> I'll
> post this later tonight, but the basic idea is that you copy the XFree86
> packages into a directory with build.sh, then run the script.  It takes
> about
> 5 to 10 minutes on my 1200 Athlon with a pretty quick hard drive, so I
> wouldn't be surprised if it took up to an hour on older hardware.
> 
> 
> You'd better be really sure that you actually want to do this before you
> put
> any time into it.  There is a reason that XFree86 was not installable
> via
> Cygwin's setup.exe for almost a year after we started using the XFree86
> packaging script.
> 
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Harold
> 
> Nicholas Wourms <nwourms@yahoo.com> said:
> 
> > Harold,
> > 
> > How do you build the packages for use with setup.exe?  Do you use a
> script
> > or do you do it by hand?  If it is a script, would you post it please?
> 
> > The reason I ask is because I want to recompile X and add it to my
> local
> > install directory with upset.  Thanks in advance!
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Nicholas
> > 
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