libXinerama ?

Frédéric L. W. Meunier 2@pervalidus.net
Mon May 24 20:52:00 GMT 2004


On Sun, 23 May 2004, Doug Wyatt wrote:

> I'm trying to built the latest ICEwm package for Cygwin (current),
> but it appears to need/want libXinerama -
>
>    checking for XineramaQueryScreens in -lXinerama... no
>    configure: error: Xinerama can not be found
>
> I've only found 1 hit in a search of the online archive, dated
> 23Mar2003.  Also, it doesn't show up in a Cygwin package search,
> though Xinerama is in xorg-x11-bin-dlls-6.7.0.0.4-src and in
> xorg-x11-devel-6.7.0.0.4-src.
>
> I've downloaded the two src packages but at least at first glance,
> I'm out of my depth w/resp to trying to build libXinerama.
>
> Can someone tell me how to obtain a libXinerama for Cygwin ?

I don't think it's available, but you don't need it. Just pass 
--disable-xinerama.

And if by latest you mean 1.2.14pre16, file a bug report for 
the author. Xinerama isn't mandatory, so the test shouldn't 
make configure stop.

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