Thanks Dave but I don't think any of that applies with BaCon? BaCon 's translated code dynamically loads and links with all (dll's, so's). From the CygWin doc's it appears you need to run the x server first before you use gtk. Such is not the case with BaCon created code. I first wanted to see if code that ran on linux would run under cygwin and most does. The problem I was having is in one the last post relating to native windows calls. James On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com> wrote: > James Fuller wrote: >>> http://www.allbasic.info/forum/index.php?topic=794.0 >>> "I did get Gtk from here: http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html " >> You didn't read that page carefully enough: it says >> "These packages are not for developing or running programs that use the Cygwin > Unix emulation environment. Cygwin has GTK+ packages available directly in its > installer which you should use." >>> " I got all the Gtk+ individual packages plus all the Third Party with the > check boxes. I put all the dll's in the cygwin/bin directory." >> That's very very wrong. Those are native win32 versions of the libraries. > No good will come of it. Delete them all and use the Cygwin version instead: > install libgtk2.0_0 using setup.exe. >> I have no idea if that'll solve all your problems, but it's not even worth > beginning to try and debug the sort of problems you'll run into trying to use > those DLLs under Cygwin. >>> cheers, > DaveK >> -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >> -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple