From: J. D. W. <Jan...@zu...> - 2002-04-15 11:40:26
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Hi Earnie, and all. Great! Now it works! It was the DISPLAY (from exceed). Thanks again, Jan. Earnie Boyd wrote: > > "J. D. Wegner" wrote: > > > > Hi Earnie, > > > > Earnie Boyd wrote: > > > > > > "J. D. Wegner" wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I installed MingW32 (1.0.6) and MSys (1.0) on > > > > a WinNT 4 Box > > > > > > > > > > You mean MSYS-1.0.6 and MinGW-1.1? > > > > > > > oops, yes, that's what I mean. > > > > Good. > > > > > when I startet the MSYS from the desktop some > > > > cmd-wins pop up and vanish away immedeatly. > > > > Some further investigation shows that there > > > > was a libW11.dll missing. I found a libX11.dll > > > > renamed it and ... > > > > well the rxvt pops up but there's no promt and I > > > > can't type in anything. > > > > > > > > > > This is the first report of any such problem. libW11.dll should live in > > > msys\1.0\bin and should have been installed with the install process. > > > > Ok! It is. > > > > Good. > > > > Which architecture file are you using? You say you found a libX11.dll > > > but that wasn't supplied by the package and simply renaming it to > > > libW11.dll ain't ever going to work so don't do such things. > > > > > > > I used the exe-arch from sourceforge 'msys-1.0.6-i586.exe' if > > that's > > what you mean by 'architecture file'. > > > > Yes, that's what I meant. > > > These are the files I have when using the supplied install-proc: > > $ pwd > > /d/win32app/MSys/1.0/bin > > $$ ls *.dll > > libW11.dll msys-1.0.dll > > $rxvt -e cmd.exe > > failed to load libX11.dll > > > > Try > unset DISPLAY > before > rxvt > . > > BTW, I doubt starting cmd.exe under rxvt is going to get you much. You > should instead `-e /bin/sh --login -i'. > > > > > What can I do. > > > > > > > > > > Try the install again. The libW11.dll is required and must exist within > > > the setup package or I would have heard about it by now. > > > > > > > bte. the bin/sh and sh work fine, if the rxvt is commentet out. > > > > > > > > > > Yes, that's correct. It was designed that way. > > > > > but when the rxvt EXISTs and fails to run the sh never > > get executed. One may try to insert 'if errorlevel 99' ... > > > > > Earnie. > > > > > > > Well, after all I use the sh.exe way (commented out rxvt.). > > Doing fine > > with this. So this is only a hint, that there's trouble with > > rxvt > > (probably only on my box). > > > > Rxvt isn't perfect by any means especially w.r.t. native Win32 stdio. > It needs work and will get it eventually, unless someone ports readline > to use Win32 callback functions and then I'll just scrap rxvt for a > Windowed version of bash. :) > > Earnie. > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Jan Wegner Software Engineer Zuken GmbH Tel: +49 5251 150627 Vattmannstrasse 3 Fax: +49 5251 150700 33100 Paderborn Germany URL:http://www.zuken.com ---------------------------------------------------------- |