[Xastir] Cygwin problems

[Curt, WE7U]

On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Tom Russo wrote:

> This has been covered before, and should probably be added to README.win32.
>
> There are three approaches:
>   1) find the missing DLLS and install them
>   2) "downgrade" X11 do a version that had them
>   3) build ImageMagick from source so it doesn't require those DLLs.
>
> The problem is that X.org dropped support for Display PostScript, and the
> ImageMagick build available through Cygwin still tried to link that in.
>
> The maintainer of the ImageMagick package no longer has time to update it,
> and so the incompatibility remains.

Because it's been a while since it was discussed, and I don't run
Cygwin myself, I TOTALLY FORGOT about this issue.  Definitely these
sorts of things need to go into some documentation when they occur.
Thanks for doing that Tom!

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