# No tiles using cygwin install - path problem?
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/no-tiles-using-cygwin-install-path-problem/3203
**Category:** The Garage
**Created:** [September 24, 2013, 8:47pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/no-tiles-using-cygwin-install-path-problem/3203 "2013-09-24T20:47:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@doctoxic](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/doctoxic)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2013, 8:47pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/no-tiles-using-cygwin-install-path-problem/3203/1 "2013-09-24T20:47:44Z")
I have tiles set in options (by default) - but no tiles when i run the game
i assume its a pathing problem?
don’t really know what i am doing here but i changed gfx.txt to as shown below (changes are bold/underlined)
[spoiler]#Until multiple tilesets are implemented, there should only ever be these two entries
#in this file.
#Paths to Deon’s tileset: c:/cygwin/home/doctoxic/Cataclysm-DDA/gfx/DeonTileset/tile\_config.json & /deontiles.png
#Paths to Hoder’s tileset: gfx/HoderTileset/tile\_config.json & /hodertiles.png
#DEON’s TILESET
#JSON Path - Default of gfx/tile\_config.json
#JSON: gfx/DeonTileset/tile\_config.json
JSON: c:/cygwin/home/doctoxic/Cataclysm-DDA/gfx/DeonTileset/tile\_config.json & /deontiles.png
#Tileset Path - Default of gfx/tinytile.png
TILESET: gfx/DeonTileset/deontiles.png
#HODER’S TILESET – Commented out
#JSON Path - Default of gfx/tile\_config.json
#JSON: gfx/HoderTileset/tile\_config.json
#Tileset Path - Default of gfx/tinytile.png
#TILESET: gfx/HoderTileset/hodertiles.png[/spoiler]
but this doesn’t do anything
suggestions welcome 🙂
many thanks
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### Author:  [@GalenEvil](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/GalenEvil)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2013, 11:30pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/no-tiles-using-cygwin-install-path-problem/3203/2 "2013-09-24T23:30:20Z")
"JSON: c:/cygwin/home/doctoxic/Cataclysm-DDA/gfx/DeonTileset/tile\_config.json & /deontiles.png"
There’s your problem. It does not accept the &/deontiles.png part of the string. Remove that and it should work
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### Author:  [@doctoxic](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/doctoxic)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2013, 5:18am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/no-tiles-using-cygwin-install-path-problem/3203/3 "2013-09-25T05:18:45Z")
thanks - but that doesn’t seem to work either - file looks like this…
#DEON’s TILESET
#JSON Path - Default of gfx/tile\_config.json
#JSON: gfx/DeonTileset/tile\_config.json
JSON: c:/cygwin/home/doctoxic/Cataclysm-DDA/gfx/DeonTileset/tile\_config.json
#Tileset Path - Default of gfx/tinytile.png
TILESET: c:/cygwin/home/doctoxic/Cataclysm-DDA/gfx/DeonTileset/deontiles.png
#HODER’S TILESET – Commented out
#JSON Path - Default of gfx/tile\_config.json
#JSON: gfx/HoderTileset/tile\_config.json
#Tileset Path - Default of gfx/tinytile.png
#TILESET: gfx/HoderTileset/hodertiles.png
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### Author:  [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2013, 5:35am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/no-tiles-using-cygwin-install-path-problem/3203/4 "2013-09-25T05:35:41Z")
Did you do anything special to install support for SDL on cygwin? As best as I can tell cygwin takes some extra work to properly support SDL (and therefore tiles) since it’s designed to emulate linux when possible.
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### Author:  [@doctoxic](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/doctoxic)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2013, 5:38am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/no-tiles-using-cygwin-install-path-problem/3203/5 "2013-09-25T05:38:48Z")
> [@i2amroy](#):
>
> Did you do anything special to install support for SDL on cygwin? As best as I can tell cygwin takes some extra work to properly support SDL (and therefore tiles) since it’s designed to emulate linux when possible.
no - just installed what was specified in the forum post about installing cygwin
is it possible to go back and install extra bits as you suggest - and if so what exactly do i install
thanks
EDIT :in case it makes any difference – i installed the 32 bit version of cygwin as per the wikki (though i do have win7 64bit)
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### Author:  [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2013, 7:34am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/no-tiles-using-cygwin-install-path-problem/3203/6 "2013-09-25T07:34:50Z")
A check shows that currently Cygwin and SDL 1.2 (which is what we use) are currently incompatible and therefore it is impossible to compile a tiles version using Cygwin. If we update to SDL2 at a point in the future (which hopefully shouldn’t be too difficult) then Cygwin and tiles builds should become compatible once again. I’ve added a note to the wiki compiling page, hopefully that should prevent people from running into this again.
For now your options are to either download a different program to compile, or just to go without tiles sadly. (Also remember to do “make TILES=1” and then “./cataclysm-tiles” if you want to make and play a version with tiles.)
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### Author:  [@doctoxic](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/doctoxic)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2013, 9:31am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/no-tiles-using-cygwin-install-path-problem/3203/7 "2013-09-25T09:31:59Z")
thanks for the explanation - much appreciated