Why isn synergy ported to platform XYZ?
Probably because the developers don’t have access to platform XYZ and/or are unfamiliar with development on XYZ. Also, synergy has inherently non-portable aspects so there’s a not insignificant effort involved in porting. • My client can’t connect. What’s wrong? A common mistake when starting the client is to give the wrong server host name. The last synergyc command line option (Unix) or the “Server Host Name” edit field (Windows) should be the host name (or IP address) of the server not the client’s host name. If you get the error connection failed: cannot connect socket followed by the attempt to connect was forcefully rejected or connection refused then the server isn’t started, can’t bind the address, or the client is connecting to the wrong host name/address or port. See the troublshooting page for more help. • Linking fails on Solaris. What’s wrong? Did you add –x-includes=/usr/openwin/include –x-libraries=/usr/openwin/lib to the configure command line? Solaris puts the X11 in
