Cannot launch gedit from Cygport

I went ahead and installed as instructed on http://cygwinports.org/

I am only interested in using gedit in cygwin. So I just installed gedit,
and clicked finish.

It installed a bunch of dependencies. 

It finished.

I go to a new cygwin prompt:

gedit
Cannot open display:
Run 'gedit --help' to see a full list of available command line options.

Can you please help me figure out why this error happens? 

CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 w7testpc-PC 1.7.15(0.260/5/3) 2012-05-09 10:25 i686
Cygwin
Downloaded fresh from Cygports today. 

-Nicholas 

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Where is cyggtk-3.0?

Hi Cygwin ports list:

I set up cygwin and went to Cygports to install Gedit.exe. 

The install seemed to go fine, but I noticed that from the dependencies I
saw nothing about gtk+3.0 being installed.

Sure enough, when I launch /usr/bin/gedit: 

/usr/bin/gedit.exe: error while loading shared libraries: cyggtk-3-0.dll:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

How can I get gtk-3.0 on Cygwin? 

-Nicholas 

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Uploads: 2012-Jul-16

Highlights:

* Perl 5.14 rebuild
All packages with a link dependency on Perl have been rebuilt for 5.14. 
  In the interest of time, pure Perl modules haven't been rebuilt yet, 
as they will still be found by 5.14.

A list of new and updated packages is attached; for the complete list of
packages currently available, please check the FTP server:

ftp://sourceware.org/pub/cygwinports/portslist.txt

Enjoy!

Yaakov
Cygwin Ports

apache2-mod_apreq2                                 2.13-2
apache2-mod_perl                                   2.0.7-1
apache2-mod_perl-debuginfo                         2.0.7-1
claws-mail-perl_plugin                             0.9.19-2
claws-mail-perl_plugin-debuginfo                   0.9.19-2
cmake                                              2.8.8-2
cmake-debuginfo                                    2.8.8-2
cmake-gui                                          2.8.8-2
emacs-cmake                                        2.8.8-2
fox                                                1.6.46-1
fox-debuginfo                                      1.6.46-1

cygwin port installation: restart allover when disconnected

as mentioned in the subject, today I tried to install the full packages ,
but for several times the connection broke (idle sleep, network issue, power, change place, etc)
I find the installation does not continue from where it was left, but a fresh reinstall ...
this is no big deal , but I'm concerning it consume (unnecessarily) double/triple times of my space.
is it expected behavior?

I'm following the steps here:
http://sourceware.org/cygwinports/

regards
ping

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Question on mingw-jpeg build

Hi, everyone.

I suppose my question can be best answered by Yaakov so in the next
lines I prefer
to address him.

First of all thank you for many useful packages you mantain for cygwin.

I'm trying to build poppler library for mingw runtime and encountered some
problems with mingw-jpeg package. Its jconfig.h is rather different
from original.

1. It defines const as macros to empty string so it can break cpp code
than includes it.
2. It doesn't define boolean to unsigned char on windows as original
header does while
the mingw-jpeg library itself seems to be compiled with boolean set to
integer as if
it would be nether clashed with windows.h.

My question is what is the rationale for that.

It's possible to tweak poppler to be built with such config of jpeg
but it takes time to
investigate and I guess poppler could *just* be build if mingw-jpeg
follows original jconfig.h

Nick Shyrokovskiy

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Uploads: 2012-Jul-08

Highlights:

* SPICE server support in QEMU

* VLC 2.0.2

* New programs:
- dtc
- gtldesigner
- gummi
- zanshin

* Security fixes:
- pidgin (CVE-2012-3374)
- revelation
- vte, vte2.90 (CVE-2012-2738)

A list of new and updated packages is attached; for the complete list of
packages currently available, please check the FTP server:

ftp://sourceware.org/pub/cygwinports/portslist.txt

Enjoy!

Yaakov
Cygwin Ports

abiword                                            2.9.3-1

gnome-terminal displays black-on-black

With the color setting "Use colors from system theme", gnome-terminal 
displays black text on black background :(
Cannot check right now whether this might be an upstream problem, but 
since the system theme is Windows-specific, I assume it's cygports-specific.
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Inkscape and Calligra Words

These applications aren't opening up for me like GIMP. Inkscape says its path is a bad address, and Words
says to try 'export $(dbus-launch)' and then part.desktop isn't found.

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Uploads: 2012-Jun-15

Highlights:

* Linux cross-compiler refresh
- new arches: armv5tel, armv7hl
- binutils 2.22, GCC 4.7.1, glibc 2.15
- added gccgo for i686/x86_64
- kernel headers are updated and complete

* SDL refresh

* Security fixes:
- php (CVE-2012-2143)
- pidgin (CVE-2012-2214, CVE-2012-2318)

* New programs:
- aqemu, qtemu (qemu GUIs)

A list of new and updated packages is attached; for the complete list of
packages currently available, please check the FTP server:

ftp://sourceware.org/pub/cygwinports/portslist.txt

Enjoy!

Yaakov
Cygwin Ports

apache2-mod_php5                                   5.3.14-1
aqemu                                              0.8.2-1

cygport and static only libs

Yaakov,
question on cygport:
I am playing with openmpi but for the time being, I am not yet able to
built the dynamic modules due to interdepencies.

How I can bypass this during installation:

Fixing libtool modules:
         usr/lib/openmpi/libompi_dbg_msgq.la
*** ERROR: libompi_dbg_msgq.la dynamic module was not built

Regards
Marco

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lrzip pthread problem

I can't get lrzip to do anything other than hang or exit with errors.

(In case it's helpful, I'm on XP SP3 with a completely fresh cygwin, 
everything up-to-date, and the machine is a hyperthreading-enabled P4.)

If I run it with normal options it hangs, taking all CPU time on one 
virtual core. If I run it with -p 1 to specify only one thread it says 
"pthread_mutex_unlock failed" and exits.

Here's the -vv output when running with -p 1. Running without -p 1 says 
"Threading is ENABLED. Number of CPUs detected: 2" and then hangs after 
"Byte width: 4".

The following options are in effect for this COMPRESSION.
Threading is DISABLED. Number of CPUs detected: 1
Detected 1071316992 bytes ram
Compression level 7
Nice Value: 19
Show Progress
Max Verbose
Temporary Directory set as: /tmp
Compression mode is: LZMA. LZO Compressibility testing enabled
Heuristically Computed Compression Window: 6 = 600MB
Storage time in seconds 1336953337
Output filename is: /cygdrive/d/na_recovery.img.lrz
File size: 16231956480
Enabling sliding mmap mode and using mmap of 357105664 bytes with window 
of 714211328 bytes
Succeeded in testing 357105664 sized mmap for rzip pre-processing
Will take 23 passes