Help porting Xvnc to Cygwin...

[Thomas Chadwick]

I've been trying to port Xvnc to get it to build under Cygwin.  I've seen 
this done in the past, but the approach was to patch the cygwin mods into 
the Xvnc source.  I've decided to take a different approach, which is to 
patch the Xvnc mods into the Xfree86 source (which already supports Cygwin).

So far, I've gotten the necessary elements (Xvnc, libvncauth, and vncpasswd) 
to build relatively cleanly.  I've even been able to launch the server using 
the vncserver script.  It asks for a password and appears to run because the 
default xclients in the xstartup script (like xterm and twm) run without 
complaint.  However, when  I try to start up the vncviewer on the same 
machine, it prompts for a password and I get the "Please wait - Initial 
Screen Loading" message, but after a few seconds Xvnc core dumps.  Any ideas 
on what needs fixing?

I'm building and running on a ThinkPad with Windows 2000 and 256MB of 
memory.  Here's what's in my log file:

17/06/02  Xvnc version 3.3.3r2
17/06/02  Copyright (C) AT&T Laboratories Cambridge.
17/06/02  All Rights Reserved.
17/06/02  See http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc for information on VNC
17/06/02  Desktop name 'X' (tchadwic:1)
17/06/02  Protocol version supported 3.3
17/06/02  Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901
17/06/02  Listening for HTTP connections on TCP port 5801
17/06/02    URL http://tchadwic:5801

17/06/02  Got connection from client 9.61.127.19
17/06/02  Protocol version 3.5
17/06/02  Ignoring minor version mismatch
17/06/02  Pixel format for client 9.61.127.19:
17/06/02    8 bpp, depth 8
17/06/02    true colour: max r 7 g 7 b 3, shift r 0 g 3 b 6
17/06/02  no translation needed
17/06/02  Using hextile encoding for client 9.61.127.19
17/06/02  rfbProcessClientNormalMessage: ignoring unknown encoding type 3
xterm:  fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":1.0"
X connection to :1.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).


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