Building QT3/X11 Free within Cygwin Bash Shell

[Holger Schröder]

On Monday 28 February 2005 20:49, Steven Boothe wrote:
> Steven Boothe wrote:
> > Ralf Habacker wrote:
> >> Hi Steven,
> >>
> >> for compiling qt3 you should use recent cvs branch QT_WIN32_3_3_BRANCH
> >> or a recent source snapshot from http://kde-cygwin.sf.net/snapshots/qt
> >>
> >> A compile instruction could be found under
> >> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/kde-cygwin/qt-3/cygwin/Attic/READM
> >>E?rev=1.1.2.1&hideattic=0&view=markup
>
> Wow, I've now duplicated my success following your excellent
> instructions contributed here:
> http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3/compiling.php
>
> However following my success compiling, I think you may have forgot that
> compiling under cygwin you just can't go to run the apps like you can
> when compiling for QT3/Windows Free Edition where the instructions are
> the same:
>
> Start Qt applications
>
> designer
> assistant
> linguist
> cd tutorial/t1
> t1
>
> However, when attempting to do that following the previous instructions
> on the page for QT3/X11 I get the following errors:
>
> cboothe at IT-staff ~/src/qt-3
> $ designer
> designer: cannot connect to X server 127.0.0.1:0
>
Hi,

you have to have a running X-server for this setup of qt.

so you should open one cygwin shell and enter the following:

$ X -multiwindow

and in the other cygwin window:

$ export DISPLAY=:0
$ designer

then it should work

regards Holger

> cboothe at IT-staff ~/src/qt-3
> $
>
> Hence my question as to whether following instructions still available
> via the README will solve the problem, or whether I should go back to
> the page on setting up KDE and follow those?
>
> 4. enter this directory and install the binary package into
> (tmp/package/...)
>
>  ./make.sh qt-x11-free-3.3.3.ebuild install
>
> 5. create a package (will be located under /tmp)
>
> 	./make.sh qt-x11-free-3.3.3.ebuild package
>
> Because I think the last part of your instructions
>
>
> Thanks as usual for all of your help and hard work! We couldn't have
> come this far without it!
>
> Cheers!
>
> Steven
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