[X2go-dev] Compiling x2go Windows client

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 15:45 +0000, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am attempting to compile the win client and have installed the QT
> > SDK, MinGw and the x2goclient sources. They have been added to the
> > environment path to allow the compilation binaries to be found. The
> > readme says that one should rename x2goclient.pro with
> > x2goclient.pro.windows yet the latter file does not exist?
> > 
> > I decided to press on and ran qmake followed by make which completed
> > without any errors. I found the x2goclient.exe within the debug
> > directory and once I ran it the normal client screen popped up but was
> > immediately followed by the error "Runtime Error!" from the Microsoft
> > Visual C++ Runtime Library.
> > 
> > Would very much appreciate some help in resolving the problem please.
> 
> Okay I have now got it to start vcxsrv, sshd and pulse by copying the x2goclient.exe binary to c:\program files\x2goclient\ though when I try and connect to a session it just hangs on connecting :( The code I changed was in onmainwindow.cpp to the following:
> 
> /* xorg-> setWorkingDirectory ( appDir+"\\xming" ); */
> /* xorg->start ( appDir+"\\xming\\xming.exe",args ); */
> xorg-> setWorkingDirectory ( "C:\\program files\\vcxsrv" );
> xorg->setEnvironment ( env );
> xorg->start ( "C:\\program files\\vcxsrv\\vcxsrv.exe",args );
> 
> What I have noticed though it that the binary I compile is huge compared to the one that is shipped.  Is that due to it being in some sort of debug mode or has the binary been stripped ?

What args are being passed? I would guess that the arguments (or at
least the syntax) are different between Xming and vcxsrv.

Regarding size, I wonder if your binary is statically linked instead of
dynamically linked (not that I understand linking very well!) - John