On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hce wrote: > > > I actually tried QT 4.3 linux packaget, but could not build it could > > not find cygwin-g++ in makespec directory. The QT seems only support > > minGW on Windows. > > Note that a QT you build for Cygwin will be an X11 app, so you'll need > to have an X11 server running in order to use it. It won't have a > Windows GUI like the MinGW flavor.
I've tried to build the QT linux package, it could not find X11 event. I think I have installed X11, but I did not running X11 server. It is too much to using X11 server on window. Can the QT window package be compiled under Cygwin alternatively? > I'd also like to just point out that at several points in this thread > the implication has been made that there is some kind of "inside Cygwin" > or "it's a virtual environment". Cygwin is not some kind of emulator or > virtual machine, it is simply a standard win32 DLL. All Cygwin binaries > are standard win32 executables. Providing you have the Cygwin bin > directory to your PATH, you can launch them in any way you would launch > any standard Windows program -- from the start menu, from Explorer, from > a Windows Command Prompt, etc. -- there is nothing special about the > bash window that magically allows things to happen, nor are Cygwin apps > in any way obligated to only run there. > > Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
