[Xastir] Xastir Sound on Win XP Pro

[James Cour]

Curt,

90% of what is in that batch file is straight from the Startxwin.bat that
Cygwin creates, and the rest of the lines were a cut and paste job from what
others have posted.  Feel free to use whatever I post.

Jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Curt Mills, WE7U" <hacker at tc.fluke.com>
To: "James Cour" <K1ZC at comcast.net>
Cc: "xastir" <xastir at xastir.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Xastir Sound on Win XP Pro


> On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, James Cour wrote:
>
> > This one was a struggle for me too.  Here is what I did:
> >
> > 1.  In Xastir Configure, I just have the word "auplay" with no options.
> >
> > 2.  I start Xastir from a batch file that reads as follows:
> >
> > ***********************************
> > @echo off
> > SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> > SET MAGICK_HOME=/usr
> > SET CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin
> > SET PATH=.;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\usr\X11R6\bin;%PATH%
> >
> > if not exist %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0 goto CLEANUP-FINISH
> > attrib -s %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0
> > del %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0
> > :CLEANUP-FINISH
> > if exist %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix rmdir %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix
> >
> > start XWin -multiwindow
> > run nasd -b
> > run /usr/local/bin/xastir xastir
> >
> > ***********************************
> >
> > So, load NASD from the Windows O/S, not from the BASH shell.  The batch
file
> > above does not even display the BASH window since you should not need it
> > except when doing updates and recompiling (I have a different batch file
for
> > that).  I found I had problems if I used the "NASD -b -local" snytax so
I
> > removed that.  Since I did that, Xastir sounds have been working fine.
> >
> > Oh, you do know that you have to have the NASD sound drivers installed,
> > right?  Get the NAS-1.6-win-binary.zip file here:
> >
> > http://nas.intra-links.net/download.php
> >
> > Unzip it to a new directory then delete README.TXT and CYGWIN1.DLL.
Copy
> > the rest of the files to C:\Cygwin\bin (or wherever you bin directory
is).
> > Then you should be good to go.  I am running XP Home, but I don't think
that
> > should matter.
>
> What portion of this do we have permission to use/should we use in
> the README's.  I'm depending on you Cygwin users to help keep the
> docs straight!
>
> -- 
> Curt Mills, WE7U                    hacker_NO_SPAM_ at tc.fluke.com
> Senior Methods Engineer/SysAdmin
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>
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