Re: XForms: One more time

T.C. Zhao (tc_zhao@yahoo.com)
Wed, 23 Sep 1998 16:26:21 -0700 (PDT)

# To subscribers of the xforms list from "T.C. Zhao" <tc_zhao@yahoo.com> :

>
> # To subscribers of the xforms list from Doug Roberts
<roberts@tsasa.lanl.gov> :
>
> A couple of work associates are porting one of my xforms applications
> to NT (I know: why?). The are using gcc from Cygnus and the X11R6.3
> distribution built for cygwin32 as well as the NT version of
> libforms.a. The app compiles and links, but when they try to run it
> they get the following error:
>
> >From the command line, I try running it by typing:
> >
> > ./Syn.exe -display Owl:0.0
> >
> >The response I get is as follows:
> >
> > Missing or failed fl_initialize()

If this is the only message you see that means your application
is not calling fl_initialize() or tried to do something, say,
creating a form, before calling fl_initialize(). Usually
if fl_initialize() fails, it will say something before dying.

or
> >
>> so I build the demo programs by configuring and running
> >their make file. I tested about a half-dozen of these demo
programs and
> >they all worked fine.
>
> >fl_initialize() is called by the demo programs, and they still work
fine.

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