This is my first time using Cygwin. I was hoping to build and run some Open
Source applications I tried out on Linux on my Windows machine through Cygwin.
I downloaded and installed all the Cygwin files. Now I have some issues I'm
having trouble resolving and would appreciate any help anyone can offer.
The first thing I wanted to do was have either fluxbox or openbox or both
available as window managers as I feel more comfortable working with them than
other window managers. I thought an openbox executable came with the Cygwin
installation. However, when I tried to use it, my screen looked funny and the
menu was black on black so I couldn't see anything. I tried the same technique
with windowmaker. I edited ~/.xinitrc using nano and added exec and the window
manager name. Then I ran startx. Windowmaker works fine, so I'm guessing the
problem with openbox is either some missing files or inappropriate settings,
not how I'm starting the server or calling the window manager. How do I get
openbox working properly?
When openbox wouldn't work, I downloaded the source to fluxbox version 1.1.1.
I ran ./configure, make, make install. It built fine, but when I try executing
it (as I did with the other window managers), I get the following error message:
7 [main] sh 2188! _pinfo::dup_proc_pipe: DuplicateHandle failed, pid 2188,
hProcess 0x6A1, wr_proc_pipe 0x7FC, Win32 error 6
This program cannot be run in DOS mode.
I was able to build and run xfireworks from source on my machine within Cygwin,
so it doesn't seem likely that it's an issue with the technique I'm using to
build the executable or a problem finding the right compiler. Any ideas on how
to get a working version of fluxbox?
Also, when I built fluxbox the first time, I defaulted my paths to the \usr
directory, so the executable went to \usr\bin. I built a tarball with a build
script, like I would on Slackware Linux. I used spkg running natively on
Windows to install the tarball, with the executable going to the
\cygwin\usr\bin directory and the other files to their appropriate locations.
When I looked for the files in the Cygwin shell program, I couldn't find them.
I know msys does some strange things with mapping the virtual /usr/bin location
to /bin. However, I was attempting to follow fhs (file hierarchy spec) like on
Linux. Is there a work-around to let /usr/bin map to \cygwin\usr\bin instead
of \cygwin\bin? I know msys has a work-around for this by remapping the drives
in the \etc\fstab file. Was wondering if there was a way to do this in Cygwin
(which does not use \etc\fstab). What directories do people usually install
their compiled applications to? The
second time I tried with fluxbox, I had the files go to the /usr/local
directories. That seemed to solve the issue of finding the files, but I was
still unable to get fluxbox working because of the error message above. Any
ideas?
Thanks in advance for any help or clarifications anyone can offer on these
topics.
Sincerely,
Laura
http://www.distasis.com/cpp
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