Running AcGrace on Windows
To download early versions of AcGrace and Xmgr5 menu please click here. Running AcGrace on Windows
AcGrace runs under the Cygwin environment on all Windows platforms. Cygwin is a UNIX environment, developed by Red Hat, for Windows. It consists of two parts:
- A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a UNIX emulation layer providing substantial UNIX API functionality.
- A collection of tools, ported from UNIX, which provide UNIX/Linux look and feel.
The Cygwin DLL works with all non-beta, ix86 versions of Windows since Windows 95, with the exception of Windows CE.
Note, earlier versions of AcGrace and Xmgr5 included a minimal beta version of the Cygwin environment that was installed through the InstallShield wizard. This resulted in some conflicts when new versions of Cygwin were installed. This version of AcGrace requires Cygwin be installed separately.
Installation Steps
Install or Update Cygwin
Be sure to include the new "xorg-X11" based version of X not the "XFree86" based runtime packages. These include:
- xorg-X11-base
- xorg-X11-bin
- xorg-X11-bin-dlls
- xorg-X11-bin-Indir
- xorg-X11-devel
- xorg-X11-etc
- xorg-X11-fenc
- xorg-X11-fnts
- xorg-X11-libs-data
- XmHTML
- lesstif
- X-startup-scripts (Optional: Include if you plan to use the xorg X-server)
- xorg-X11-xwin (Optional: Include if you plan to use the xorg X-server)
Install and Start an X-Window Server
AcGrace has been tested with eXceed from Hummingbird and the XFree86 server available from the Cygwin installation.
Download acgrace_5.1.19B_WIN32.tar.gz
And store it in a temporary location on your PC.
Start a Bash Shell
And unpack the file from your cygwin root /usr/local directory:
$ cd /usr/local
$ tar zxvf <PATH_TO_FILE>/acgrace_5.1.19B_WIN32.tar.gz
This will unpack the distribution into the /usr/local/acgrace directory.
If you have previously installed AcGrace or Xmgr5 on your machine, check your environmental variables using the Control Panel -> System Properties Dialog. Remove any entries for GRACE_HOME or XKEYSYMDB. These are no longer needed and may cause the program to fail to load properly.
Start AcGrace
A batch file "acgrace.bat" located in the /usr/local/acgrace/bin/ can be used to start the application.