Yaakov (Cygwin/X <yselkowitz <at> users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> > On 20/01/2010 16:36, Richard Dickinson wrote: > > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > > Some googling would have shown you what this means. You need to be > running an X server and set the DISPLAY variable in order to use GTK+ > (or any other X11 GUI). > > This being a Cygwin/X question, it really belongs on the Cygwin/X list; > redirecting accordingly. > > > And on my Vista machine I have gtkmm for Windows setup from which I can run > > Gtk-demo from my Vista cmd prompt > > GTKmm for Windows is just that -- for WINDOWS. Cygwin's GTK+ is a > *NIX/X11 version and needs a Cygwin-built GTKmm, which is available from > Cygwin Ports. > > > (but cannot compile gtk+ code with from Vista cmd > > prompt as I get 'access denied' error message?!). > > '/usr/bin/gcc' is a symlink, which Windows itself doesn't understand. > Cygwin commands are generally meant to be run from a Cygwin environment > (in this case, bash, or another shell of your choice). > > > I have cygwin/bin in my path& gtkmm/bin also. > > This is asking for problems. You're better off keeping extra Win32 > components out of your Cygwin PATH. > > Yaakov > Cygwin/X > > Hi Yaakov Thanks for your reply. This has helped me a little but I am grateful for a bit more help please. As I have already downloaded Cygwins GtK+ packages do I not already have gtkmm installed in cygwin? I tried to follow instructions to get Cygwin-built GTKmm from Cygwin-Ports but when I looked at the Cygwin-Ports available packages these are: gtk-vnc 0.3.10-1 gtk1.2-engines 0.12-10 gtk2.0-canberra-module 0.22-1 gtk2.0-engines-qt4 1.1-10 gtk2.0-engines-qtcurve 1.0.1-1 gtk2.0-engines-xfce 2.6.0-10 with no sign of GTKmm (?) I apologise if I am missing something here (I am only an amateur programmer but I would like to compile gtk+ code in cygwin and in cmd prompt in Vista and am finding this hard to acheive!). I didn't really understand how to use cygwin download with the -X flag either? Most grateful for more of your fine advice and help, many thanks Richard -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
