cygwin/xfree86 startup problem

[Harold L Hunt II]

Philip,

Your problem is that the User's Guide is out of date.  Read the note on 
xfree86.cygwin.com about how to install.

Harold

Philip Blood wrote:

>I had a problem exactly like the one below except I did install everything
>in C drive in the proper directories.  The only thing I can thin is that I
>downloaded the cygwin setup.exe to a zip and ran it and downloaded the files
>to the zip.  Then I copied setup.exe and all the cygwin files directly to
>c:/cyginstall.  Then I ran setup.exe again, this time choosing to install
>from local directory to c:/cygwin. Then I copied the zipped xfree binaries
>from my zip to c:/cygwin/tmp.  Then I installed cygwin/xfree86 exactly
>according to the users guide, but when I doubleclicked on startxwin.bat, I
>got the error it could not find cygwin1.dll even though I could see it
>sitting there in c:/cygwin/bin.  There were also messages in the terminal
>about not being able to locate Xwin, Xterm, and twm.
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>Editing the path to explicitly include c:\ does nothing in my case.  I am
>also using Windows 98SE.
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>Phil Blood
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
>>Of Harold L Hunt
>>Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 10:27 AM
>>To: willichnicht habichnet; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>>Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
>>Subject: Re: Bug in startxwin.bat after installing with setup.exe in
>>win98SE
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>>First: Wrong mailing list.  Send all Cygwin/XFree86 questions to
>>cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com.  I have redirected this discussion to the correct
>>mailing list, but be careful to remove cygwin@cygwin.com from the ``cc''
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>>Second: Read the extensive comments in startxwin.bat that talk about
>>CYGWIN_ROOT.  Not specifying a drive causes the path to reference \cygwin
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>>the current drive (such as c:\cygwin, or d:\cygwin).  You have to run
>>startxwin.bat from the same drive that Cygwin is installed on, or it won't
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>>the correct drive letter.
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>>startxwin.bat has been using this path setting system for over a year (I
>>think) and not a *single* person has reported a problem with it until
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>today.
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>>You must be doing something on your system that other users thought better
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>>(such as running startxwin.bat from the d drive, or from a network drive,
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>>Cygwin is installed on the c drive).
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>I have to disagree.  Absence of complaints does not imply absence of errors.
>Many people become "used to" buggy software that only works if you don't
>deviate
>from the well-trodden path.  That's no excuse to fail to fix a known
>problem.
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>The comments you mention:
>REM
>REM The path in the CYGWIN_ROOT environment variable assignment assume
>REM that Cygwin is installed in a directory called 'cygwin' in the root
>REM directory of the current drive.  You will only need to modify
>REM CYGWIN_ROOT if you have installed Cygwin in another directory.  For
>REM example, if you installed Cygwin in \foo\bar\baz\cygwin, you will need
>REM to change \cygwin to \foo\bar\baz\cygwin.
>REM
>REM This batch file will almost always be run from the same drive (and
>REM directory) as the drive that contains Cygwin/XFree86, therefore you will
>REM not need to add a drive letter to CYGWIN_ROOT.  For example, you do
>REM not need to change \cygwin to c:\cygwin if you are running this
>REM batch file from the C drive.
>REM
>don't explain what is wrong with adding a drive lettter, only that
>it "almost always" works because the drive letter already matches.
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>You need the drive letter to make an absolute path.
>(By the way, "." is redundant in a Windows path anyway.)
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>>Harold
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>>willichnicht habichnet <tbb_666@yahoo.com> said:
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>>>i installed cygwin/XFree86 with the recommended
>>>setup.exe in win98SE.
>>>starting X with startxwin.bat resulted in
>>>errormessages like "cygwin1.dll not found" etc.
>>>in startxwin.bat there was a line "SET
>>>CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin" which seemed to be incorrect
>>>because theres no drive given.
>>>after editing it to "SET CYGWIN_ROOT=c:\cygwin"
>>>(installation path) everything works fine.
>>>i installed it on a win2000 too without these problems
>>>but on an other win98-system same corrupted
>>>startxwin.bat was there.
>>>i have not tried an other installation directory or
>>>drive.
>>>this message is only for information; i need no other
>>>solution.
>>>
>>>Michael Heide
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