[xcrysden] cannot start XCRYSDEN

[Elie Albert Moujaes]

Dear Tone,

Thanks very much for your help. I finally got it to actually work..

Regards

Elie



On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:10:20 +0100, Tone Kokalj wrote
> On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 13:09 -0300, Elie Albert Moujaes wrote:
> > Dear Tone,
> > 
> > in fact I have Cygwin so I downloaded the tarred source xc-1.5.18-cygwin-
> > shared.tar.gz and I have untarred, entered the XCrSDen-1.5.18-bin-shared 
and 
> > did ./xcConfigure  and the following were assigned:
> > 
> > XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR=/XCrSDen-1.5.18-bin-shared
> > XCRYSDEN_SCRATCH=/home/User/xcrys_tmp
> > 
> > then I executed ./xcrysden and I got the error:
> > 
> > ./xcrysden: line 160: /XCrySDen-1.5.24-scr/scripts/xcLib.sh :no such file 
or 
> > directory
> 
> Why do you insist using xcConfigure (in 1.5.* its use is deprecated)?
> You can notice that there is a mismatch in the definition of
> XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR, because the actual definition points
> to /XCrySDen-1.5.24-scr and not to /XCrSDen-1.5.18-bin-shared. The
> problem is that if XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR is already defined, one needs to
> update its definition manually, xcConfigure wan't do it in this case!
> 
> > 
> > I have typed unset XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR
> > and then ./xcrysden again and I got:
> > 
> > XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR=/XCrySDen-1.5.18-bin-shared
> > XCRYSDEN_SCRATCH=/home/User/xcrys_tmp
> > 
> > Application initialization failed: no display name and no $DISPLAY envir
> > ariable
> 
> OK, it works now (in principle)! The problem you are facing is that you
> tried to run xcrysden without running X-window. First, launch the
> X-window system in your cygwin and then from, say, xterm launch the
> xcrysden (but makes sure the XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR is either undefined or
> correctly defined)!
> 
> Regards, Tone
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