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Re: Anybody tried compiling xfig 3.2?
- To: "Anees A. Shaikh" <ashaikh at eecs dot umich dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Anybody tried compiling xfig 3.2?
- From: "Steven J. Zeil" <zeil at cs dot odu dot edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 14:04:19 -0400 (EDT)
- cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Anees A. Shaikh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get xfig running on my Win95 box under b18. Using
> precompiled X11 libs from Arlindo and cygwin.dll from Sergey (not the
> latest) I was able to compile with the following mods:
>
> - replace calls to random/srandom with rand/srand
> - force it to use dirent.h structs rather than dir.h -- there is no
> dir.h
>
I compiled xfig 3.1.4 using the same process.
> I also compiled libjpeg
Yes, I used version 6a
> and libXpm pretty much out of the box
> (necessary for xfig).
I didn't need that. Is it optional, or a change between xfig 3.1.4 and
3.2?
> My assumption that getting it to compile would result in a working
> binary didn't hold. It seems to start up okay but then immediately
> crashes with an exception.
>
I had a few of those that I traced to having set up my X server stuff
incorrectly. Make sure that you can run the various binaries that come
with Arlindo's X libs.
SJZ
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