[Magic-dev] Can't make cygwin/magic run on my XP PC

[Johan Estrada]

Dear friends developers of magic:

 

Hope this mail find you well. I'm trying to make cygwin/magic (and hopefully
IRSIM) to run on my laptop (Windows XP Professional SP2), following the
instructions found in 

http://opencircuitdesign.com/magic/index.html. I'd already have installed
the cygwin program, I even installed all the X11, Devel, Interpreters,
Editors and archive options, and cygwin runs when I bring up a terminal.

I type XWin -multiwindow and apparently it runs because I can see the X in
my taskbar. But when I try to open another cygwin terminal, I type export
DISPLAY=:0, and then oclock, and nothing happens! The prompt just displays
an flashing _ and then the terminal doesn't responds to any key. 

 

The same happens when I do the instructions: 

1.	export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/lib 
2.	export DISPLAY=":0" 
3.	wish 

after installing the Tcl-cygwind distribution and the same happens after
installing the magic program. I just type magic and nothing happens!

 

At this moment I have installed, uninstalled and installed again the
cygwin/magic (even once installing ALL the cygwin program) and it's turning
very frustrating. What could be happening? A friend has successfully runned
magic in a PC using cygwing, doing the same steps that you provide. What
could be the difference? It could be silly or naive on my part, but the only
thing I can imagine, is that I have installed a "Parental Control" software
in my computer, that monitors all internet traffic. Do you believe that this
can interfere with the cygwin X11 use? 

 

I would like to receive some help from you guys, because I would really like
to give magic a try. I have used LASI and from what I can read on the
internet, magic is 100% much better software. Thanks in advance for all your
help and time.

 

Johan Estrada

 

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