*sigh*
I really don't want this to drop into a linux/cygwin/mingw/win32/etc
argument.
Larrie.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Wilson"
To: <geda-dev@seul.org>
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: gEDA: building under cygwin
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.
