Stuart,
I use Cygwin EVERY day on a Windows box that I have to keep Windows. It
allows me to use Xterms, a familiar command sequence and have a command
line capability on what otherwise wants to be a GUI system. I expect I
am a typical user. I can't put Linux on this box because of other
applications I HAVE to run for work. So Cygwin is a great idea TODAY
for my uses.
Steve Wilson
Stuart Brorson wrote:
Actually, Cygwin was probably a good idea about 10 years ago.
However, nowadays you can throw Linux on any garden variety PC, so why
bother to fool around with Cygwin?
Stuart
As I dig through the archives, I see this topic coming up from time to time.
However, I don't understand the history behind why cygwin is not supported
using the standard build scripts.
It appears (after testing for a month) that building under cygwin is
possible with minor changes to the source (based on sources from the 2005
geda suite ISO and the cygwin 5.0 setup program). For instance, the hardest
was in gnetlist given a strange interaction with *optarg being defined in
parsecmd.c (commenting out the unneccessary declaration fixed the problem).
Either I'm way off the beaten path (and nobody else cares), or I'm missing
something during my testing and will hit it when I get around to doing
something useful.
Larrie.
