Re: Running a simple GUI app

2008-08-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 06:42:58PM -, John Emmas wrote: > Sorry Phil if my questions seem 'lame'. I should have explained that I > only > installed Cygwin this morning so I'm by no means up to speed with the > concepts or terminology. > > Anyway, I managed to arrange Windows so that it now st

Re: Running a simple GUI app

2008-08-18 Thread John Emmas
Sorry Phil if my questions seem 'lame'. I should have explained that I only installed Cygwin this morning so I'm by no means up to speed with the concepts or terminology. Anyway, I managed to arrange Windows so that it now starts X at boot up. This means that I can use a (DOS) console window to

RE: Running a simple GUI app

2008-08-18 Thread Phil Betts
John Emmas wrote on Monday, August 18, 2008 4:55 PM:: > Hi there, > > After installing Cygwin (under WinXP) I've got to the stage of > compiling a very simple "Hello World" app which just displays an > empty GTK dialog with the title "Hello World". To run the app I > (currently) have to start Cy

Re: ioctl in cygwin

2008-08-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Lihong Chen wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me if ioctl works the same like linux or not? If they work differently, how to do the ioctl call in cygwin environment? The idea is that it's the same as Linux. If you're having a problem, report it to the main Cygwin list unless it's intricately tied to

Running a simple GUI app

2008-08-18 Thread John Emmas
Hi there, After installing Cygwin (under WinXP) I've got to the stage of compiling a very simple "Hello World" app which just displays an empty GTK dialog with the title "Hello World". To run the app I (currently) have to start Cygwin (using its desktop icon), type "startx" into the DOS terminal

ioctl in cygwin

2008-08-18 Thread Lihong Chen
Hi, Can anyone tell me if ioctl works the same like linux or not? If they work differently, how to do the ioctl call in cygwin environment? Thanks. Lihong Chen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Docum

Re: Hello

2008-08-18 Thread John Emmas
Thanks Marco, you were absolutely right. I've now re-installed following those instructions and a lot more things are getting installed. It looks like this will be a lengthy process so in the meantime, can I ask another newbie question please...? At the moment, I'm starting Cygwin by using its

Re: Hello

2008-08-18 Thread Marco Lechner
Hi John, I suppose you are trying an install from localdirectory. Because you didn't download the X11-packages (because you used only the default-option only defaultz packages were downloaded). Why not reading the Installation-Howo? http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/setup-cygwin-x-installing.html Marc

Re: Hello

2008-08-18 Thread John Emmas
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Hello Rerun http://cygwin.com/setup.exe, keep hitting Next, and when it gets to the "Select Packages" screen, maximimize the screen and you'll see an "X11" category on the bottom. You can either install ev