[X2go-dev] Compiling x2go Windows client

[Gerry Reno]

On 11/09/2010 11:17 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> 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
>
> _______________________________________________
>    

Phil,
Sounds like you're making good progress.  As John says you may need to 
adjust the args.

Sometimes statically linked can actually be better because you're not 
dependent on people having specific DLL's installed or the 
correct/compatible versions of DLL's.

How much bigger is your binary?

Regards,
Gerry