Re: inkscape installed but does nothing --- solved to my satisfaction

Hi John, J.F. Huesman via Cygwin wrote: [...] If I call inkscape -V from the prompt, I get an error:(inkscape:1451): Gtk-WARNING **: 07:07:30.361: cannot open display: :0 Inkscape is expecting a running X server to display on. But even for "-V"? That seems a little presumptuous :-). But

RE: inkscape installed but does nothing --- solved to my satisfaction

> I have uploaded a re-build of inkscape that seems to avoid the issue reported > by> the OP, namely inkscape exiting without doing anything (with exit code > 127).>> Could the OP please try installing this updated inkscape, shown as > 0.92.3-2 (Test)> in the Cygwin setup app.  Being a test buil

Re: inkscape installed but does nothing

Mark Geisert via Cygwin wrote: I've found that Cygwin's latest inkscape 0.92.3 cannot be built with either gcc-g++ 11.4 or 11.2.  There are incompatibilities with recent C++ include files. Inkscape *can* be built with gcc-g++ 7.4; that version even seems to run okay. So it seems that without f

Re: inkscape installed but does nothing

Mark Geisert via Cygwin wrote: I'm now going through the laborious process of building inkscape on my test system to see if the same issue happens with my build.  I'll give an update when I have something to report. I've found that Cygwin's latest inkscape 0.92.3 cannot be built with either g

Re: inkscape installed but does nothing

Hi John, J.F. Huesman via Cygwin wrote: [...my previous info about reproducing the issue elided here...] I get those same error codes (of course the process ID and thread numbers are different).exception 139 indicates, I think, a missing required file or link. Maybe it's an issue with the cyg

Re: inkscape installed but does nothing

I realize that this doesn't solve the problem with the Cygwin version, but there is a Windows version of Inkscape. I don't know if it can do the batch operations you mentioned earlier. I realize that you may already be aware of this version, so I apologize if this is compl

RE: inkscape installed but does nothing

> I installed inkscape and tried running the .exe.  It returns to shell prompt > but > its exit code is 127, indicating a problem starting the process up.  ldd > doesn't > show anything amiss; as an aside that's an unusually long list of DLLs. > > I ran 'strace -o inkscape.out inkscape -V' and lo

Re: inkscape installed but does nothing.

FWIW I can reproduce the issue. See below... René Berber via Cygwin wrote: On 11/22/2023 10:27 PM, J.F. Huesman via Cygwin wrote: (I tried to reply to this message twice and got mailer-daemon failure notices both times. My apologies if this is a duplicate message.) Yes, they are installed. w

RE: inkscape installed but does nothing

> On 11/22/2023 10:27 PM, J.F. Huesman via Cygwin wrote:>> > (I tried to reply > to this message twice and got mailer-daemon failure> > notices both times. My > apologies if this is a duplicate message.)> > Yes, they are installed. which > xwin xinit/usr/bin/xwin/usr/bin/xinit> >> > When I try t

Re: inkscape installed but does nothing.

On 11/22/2023 10:27 PM, J.F. Huesman via Cygwin wrote: (I tried to reply to this message twice and got mailer-daemon failure notices both times. My apologies if this is a duplicate message.) Yes, they are installed. which xwin xinit/usr/bin/xwin/usr/bin/xinit When I try to run inkscape, I don

RE: inkscape installed but does nothing.

(I tried to reply to this message twice and got mailer-daemon failure notices both times. My apologies if this is a duplicate message.) Yes, they are installed. which xwin xinit/usr/bin/xwin/usr/bin/xinit When I try to run inkscape, I don't get any errors and there were no messages about missin

Re: inkscape installed but does nothing

On 2023-11-21 21:33, René Berber via Cygwin wrote: On 11/21/2023 10:23 PM, J.F. Huesman via Cygwin wrote: I installed inkscape 0.92.3-1 using the cygwin update program.Calling inkscape does nothing. [snip] All graphical apps use Cygwin/X (or any X Windows). To check that Cygwin/X server is

Re: inkscape installed but does nothing

On 11/21/2023 10:23 PM, J.F. Huesman via Cygwin wrote: I installed inkscape 0.92.3-1 using the cygwin update program.Calling inkscape does nothing. [snip] All graphical apps use CygwinX (or any X Windows). -- RB -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: