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Thank you Khagda for your advice (about Linux and Cygwin - i will try learn about them !) and thank you for the command

startx&

it works ! Now i can run TeXmacs !

Thank you Ingolf for the information. Actually, i had tried the commands

XWin&

and

fvwm2&

but unfortunately it doesn't work.

With XWin& i've got a big black window called X Cygwin/X:0.0 (a red circle around the letter X). But this window is empty, even if i click on it. And no error message in the cygwin window (where i type the command XWin&), just a message like

 

$
[1] 1684

 

and then, after closing the black window :

 

[1]+ Done   XWin

 

The result with fvwm2& is a error message :

 

$ [FVWM][main]: <<ERROR>> can't open display

 

and then after a [enter]

 

[1]+ Exit 1    fvwm2

 

I don't know if it matters... I will work with "startw&"...

Thank you for the help !

Best regard,

Richard

 

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MESSAGE FROM KHADGA

Hi Richards,

Few years back, when I wanted to start using linux, I thought of giving a
try with cygwin and felt that it was a mammoth task to learn linux. But
later I found it to be easier than expected. Its more about getting used
to it. It is bit different from windows, and that difference seems to be
difficult to getting used to. After few weeks, if you explore more
programs and applications in linux, you will like it. And perhaps like it
so much that you may want to stop using windows at all.

As for your problem with texmacs, it seems that you have already done all
the job. Compiling a software from the source is not an easy task! (Even
the people using linux for day-to-day work avoid doing this.) The only
thing that is remaining for you is it to type one more command before the
command texmacs

type

startx&

A weird kind of window opens (it can be made better but for the beginning
it is okay, just to learn things in small steps) click on that window and
type

texmacs& (you don't need to type &, this is only to start the process in
background).

Just make this last step and voila!

Any problem you encounter now is not with texmacs but with cygwin,
particularly, the Xserver in cygwin. Xserver is needed for graphical
interface. and the command: startx , is to start the xserver. Don't
hesitate to post the output if you encounter further problems.

Cheers,
Khadga

 

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MESSAGE FROM INGOLF

Dear Richard,

> [snip ...]
> 
> It seemed to be ok BUT... when i called texmacs with
> "texmacs &"
>  cygwin answered :
> " fatal error : i failed to connect to Xserver in
> 'x_gui_rep::x_gui_rep' "

This is a actuall great, because it means you have got a fully working
TeXmacs. You just have to start X11 before running TeXmacs.

As said in the web page be sure that you have done each step of the
following:

  *  Launch Cygwin from your desktop using the link.
      * In the Cygwin window, launch the X server using XWin& and the
        window manager using fvwm2&.
      * In the X window, try launching an Xterm using the popup menu
        when pressing the right-hand button.

Enter the command "texmacs" in this new Window labelled Xterm. Then
everything should work as promised. I think you missed the last two
steps and entered "texmacs" directly in the first window.

Yours,

Ingolf
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>
> Hello,
>
>
> Khagda : you were right. I thought that my cygwin was complete but i was
> wrong, so yesterday i made the complete installation.
>
> Today i have made the
> "./configure" + "make" + "make install".
>
> It seemed to be ok BUT... when i called texmacs with
> "texmacs &"
>  cygwin answered :
> " fatal error : i failed to connect to Xserver in 'x_gui_rep::x_gui_rep' "
>
> :(((
>
> Maybe texmacs(cygwin) is too difficult for me... I am desapointed...
>
> I work with wintexmacs. The problem is that wintexmacs is not complete...
> This is why i have decided to change...
>
> Thank you,
>
> Richard
>
>
> ..
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----E-mail d'origine-----
> De : Khadga Karki <address@hidden>
> A : address@hidden
> Envoyé le : Jeudi, 15 Avril 2010 14:59
> Sujet : Re: Re : : [TeXmacs] Problem with my new installation
>
>
> Did you also install all the programs mentioned in the point 3 in
>
> http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/download/cygwin.en.html
>
> It seems you are missing libgmp.
>
> First install all the packages mentioned in the web-page above. If doing
> that does not work
> then install
>
> libgmp3-dev
> and give a try. I think you are running into these problems because you
> just did a minimal installation of cygwin rather than the complete
> installation. Now you know how to install packages in cygwin, follow the
> step 3 in the webpage.
>
> Best,
>
> address@hidden wrote:
>> Thank you Khadga,
>> > the link you gave me
>> > http://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~aamodt/ece242/cygwin.html >
>> <http://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/%7Eaamodt/ece242/cygwin.html> > > is
>> useful to make easily the needed installation (in this site they >
>> talk about gcc, gbd and make, so i have installed all of three).
>> > Then, ./configure gave me a new error message : << ... cannot find >
>> guile-config, is Guile installed ? >>
>> > So i went back to the cygwin installation and i found (in the long >
>> list called "DEVEL" where i found "gcc") a tool called GUILE.
>> I have installed it. After that, the command
>> > ./configure
>> > worked. :))))
>> > So i type the command
>> > make
>> > and i got a new error message...
>>
>> :(((((
>> > I have attached the picture of the cygwin screen. Maybe someone can >
>> help me...
>>
>> Thank you !
>> > Richard
>> -----E-mail d'origine-----
>> De : Khadga Karki <address@hidden>
>> A : address@hidden
>> Envoyé le : Jeudi, 15 Avril 2010 11:28
>> Sujet : Re: Re : [TeXmacs] Problem with my new installation
>>
>> The problem probably is not with your windows setting for cygwin. You >
>> cannot compile texmacs from source without an acceptable C compiler in >
>> cygwin. Perhaps you should fix that problem first. > > Try installing
>> gcc as shown in this web page: >
>> http://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~aamodt/ece242/cygwin.html >
>> <http://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/%7Eaamodt/ece242/cygwin.html> > > Best > >
>> address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden> wrote: > > > >
>> Thank you Kadga and Alfe. > > > Installing gcc seems to be difficult. So
>> before i do it i have to > tell > you something. When i have installed
>> cygwin (following > >
>> http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/download/cygwin.en.html) i didn't execute >
>> > the operation #5 below > > > 5. Put c:\cygwin at the start of the PATH
>> environment variable and > > 127.0.0.1:0.0 for DISPLAY in the menu
>> *Start->Control > > Panel->System->Advanced->Environment variables*. > >
>> > Actually i don't know what it means... It may be the cause of my > >
>> compilation problem... I work in french, so i am not sure what > >
>> "Control Panel" is. I don't find "System"... > > > I used to work with
>> WinTeXmacs but i wanted to install the "cygwin > > TeXmacs" in my new
>> computer to have the recent version of TeXmacs... > > It seems to be
>> difficult... If #5 does not have to see with my gcc > > problem i will
>> try to install gcc (even if i am quite afraid with it)... > > > Thank
>> you > > > Richard > > checking for gcc... no > checking for cc... no >
>> checking for > cl.exe... no > configure: error: in
>> 'cygdrive/c/tmp/TeXmacs-1.0.7-src' > : > configure: error: no acceptable
>> C compiler found in $PATH > > > > > > > -----E-mail d'origine----- > >
>> De : Alfe <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> > > A :
>> address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden> > > Envoyé
>> le : Mercredi, 14 Avril 2010 23:00 > > Sujet : Re: [TeXmacs] Problem
>> with my new installation > > > > Hi Richard, > > TeXmacs is made for
>> Unix-like systems; therefore, to > get it running on > Windows systems,
>> we have to install cygwin which > is a kind of a > Unix-Emulation for
>> Windows. This is the reason why > the error messages > you get are not
>> typical Windows-style but rather > Unix style. In detail: > > >
>> address@hidden > <mailto:address@hidden>
>> <mailto:address@hidden > <mailto:address@hidden?>> wrote:
>> > >> I have just installed > cygwin. And it seems to work. > >> Then i
>> have loaded > TeXmacs-1.0.7-src from the GNU Website. I saved > it in >
>> >> > cygdrive/c/tmp/ > >> >> The operation > >> >> tar -zxvf >
>> TeXmacs-1.0;7-src.tar.gz > >> >> worked : it made a lot of files >
>> (flooding the cygwin window). > >> >> Then i type > >> >> cd >
>> TeXmacs-1.0.7-src > >> >> and it works : we are now in >
>> cygdrive/c/tmp/TeXmacs-1.0.7-src, > and i >> type > >> >> ./configure >
>> > > ./configure tries to prepare the build scripts to the helpers you >
>> have > installed. Several helpers are needed to build TeXmacs, most > >
>> prominently a compiler, but it does not have to be one specific; it > >
>> can be one of several. The ./configure tries to find out which helpers >
>> > are installed and prepares the build scripts so that they will deal >
>> > with the installed helpers. > > >> and here is the result : > >> << >
>> > >> checking build system type... i686-pc-cygwin > >> checking host >
>> system type... i686-pc-cygwin > > Just informational output: Your >
>> system is a "Unix" of type > i686-pc-cygwin ;-) > > >> checking for >
>> gcc... no > >> checking for cc... no > >> checking for cl.exe... no > >
>> >> configure: error: in 'cygdrive/c/tmp/TeXmacs-1.0.7-src' : > >> >
>> configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH > > No such >
>> helper found (in this case the C compiler): This is a reason > for >
>> ./configure to abort. The mentioned $PATH is what Windows users > call >
>> %PATH%; this is a list of directories in which executables are > >
>> searched for by the system. In the cygwin window you can type 'echo > >
>> $PATH' to find out what yours is set to (but this won't help you). > > >
>> But anyway, in none of these directories is a compiler ./configure can >
>> > handle, so as > Khadga Karki wrote: > > Try installing gcc first. > >
>> > Do that. Try ./configure again then. See what helper is missing >
>> next. > Come back here if you have no clue ;-) Good luck. > > Alfe >
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