Re: Beginner questions, setting up window manager and paths

2009-05-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 05/05/2009, LM wrote: Is there a good forum to share tips or patches needed to get applications building and working on Cygwin as opposed to building them on Linux and/or Windows directly? I don't know of a general forum like this. That's not to say that there isn't something out there. I

Re: Beginner questions, setting up window manager and paths

2009-05-05 Thread LM
Larry Hall wrote: >1.7 has '/etc/fstab', if you prefer this (and if you don't, you'll >be stuck with it eventually anyway. ;-) ) See cygwin.com for links to >the User's Guide documentation for 1.5 and 1.7. Thanks for the information on 1.7. Looks like it'll be nice. Now I'm just wondering if

Re: Beginner questions, setting up window manager and paths

2009-05-01 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
LM wrote: This is my first time using Cygwin. I was hoping to build and run some Open Source applications I tried out on Linux on my Windows machine through Cygwin. I downloaded and installed all the Cygwin files. Now I have some issues I'm having trouble resolving and would appreciate any help a

Beginner questions, setting up window manager and paths

2009-05-01 Thread LM
This is my first time using Cygwin. I was hoping to build and run some Open Source applications I tried out on Linux on my Windows machine through Cygwin. I downloaded and installed all the Cygwin files. Now I have some issues I'm having trouble resolving and would appreciate any help anyone