X / gtk-x11 / flicker and other problems [+PATCH]

[Jon TURNEY]

John Emmas wrote:
> Okay, I fixed those problems and the build appeared to go okay, following
> these instructions (for a Standard build) but adding --disable-xv at the
> configure stage:-
> 
> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/cg/prog-build-native.html
> 
> I then got to the next stage which is to try running the local build.  I
> issued this command:-
> 
> hw/xwin/XWin -multiwindow -multiplemonitors -clipboard -silent-dup-error
> 
> but got a message box saying "A fatal error has occured and Cygwin/X will
> now exit. Please open /usr/var/log/XWin %s.log for more information"
> 
> However, there's no such folder on my system.  I do have a folder called
> /var/log/ but the most recent file in it is dated about an hour ago...   
> :-(

I guess you need to either create that directory so it can write to it, or add 
-with-log-dir=/var/log to ./configure

Alternatively, running with CYGWIN=tty will allow XWin to write to stdout 
successfully.

> Simply issuing  'hw/xwin/XWin' gives me the same problem.  Also (this 
> may be
> significant) my new XWin.exe (weighing in at just under 9Mb) is about 
> double
> the size of the previous one.

That sounds about right for an unstripped XWin.exe built with debugging symbols.

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