Re: [Mingw-msys] Problem with rxvt

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

"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.

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