[wingide-users] Getting Wing to execute code on OS X

On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 12:16 AM, Richard Chamberlain wrote:

> When I try xterm  from terminal it fails with a /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm 
> Xt error: Can't open display: message in console. However I can set 
> the display with setenv DISPLAY :0.0 and then xterm works OK, but 
> setting DISPLAY in the wingdb script doesn't work :-/
>
> I'm going to take a long hard look at the shell script (wingdb which 
> is in WingIDE.app) tomorrow to see if I can figure it out.

I was being dumb.

Basically, if your issue relates to the console, then you need to edit 
wingdb which is in the WingIDE.app/Contents/MacOS/ directory.

You need to add:

DISPLAY=:0.0
export DISPLAY

I added it just below SILENT=1 and debugging now seems to work fine.

Cheers,

Richard