Several notes:

- The 'xinit' step is not really necessary.  You should be able to start 
Cygwin/X using the Start Menu icon, and this is what I recommend.  
Regardless, whereas the VGL User's Guide does stipulate that you should 
start Cygwin/X, the procedure for doing that belongs in the Cygwin 
documentation, not ours, since that procedure is not specific to VirtualGL.

- The VGL User's Guide already stipulates that vglconnect should be run 
from a Cygwin xterm: 
https://cdn.rawgit.com/VirtualGL/virtualgl/2.6.1/doc/index.html#hd005003

- The need to manually install the dependencies prior to running 
vglcygsetup is a legitimate problem, but vglcygsetup is admittedly a hack.  
I think the best long-term solution is to publish a VirtualGL package using 
the official Cygwin package submission procedure.  However, I don't 
personally have the resources to do this, since I don't use the VGL Cygwin 
client (nor do any of my paying customers, to the best of my knowledge.)  
Thus, I really need someone to volunteer to maintain that package.  I can 
modify our build system to generate the package using cygport, but someone 
will need to interface with the Cygwin developers to get that package 
published.

On Thursday, April 18, 2019 at 6:49:14 PM UTC-5, marcus wrote:
>
> Yes. My step for the setup:
>
> Install cygwin.
> In cygwin terminal:
>
> download 'vglcygsetup' and run it to install VirtualGL package in the 
> popup cygwin setup GUI
>
> run 'cygserver-config'
>
> In windows PowerShell:
>
> run 'net start cygserver'
>
> Close all windows 
> Open a new cygwin terminal:
>
> 'xinit' to start cygwin/X server
>
> in the popup xterm window:
>
> 'xdpyinfo' and made sure MIT-SHM appears
>
> In a new cygwin terminal:
>
> 'vglconnect' and got error
>
>
>>

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