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?
I have to disagree with that. There are plenty of people for whom the
use of windows is mandated and cygwin is a good way to get some useful
utilities and have a programming shell. Also many people simply may not
have a computer laying around thats not total garbage that they'd care
to essentially donate to their employer. And, as hard as it is to
believe in this day and age, some of us (myself included) don't own
notebooks that can easily be carried to and from work.
With regards to Larrie's question/comment, I could easily believe that
gEDA either just works or could work with minor tweaks under cygwin. If
you want it to work as a native win32 app (not needing cygwin), you may
have to work harder to get, for example guile, to work. I think its
really a question of no one has cared enough to step up and send in a
set of patches to address whatever minor issues there may be.
BTW, what I did for the native windows version of wcalc is I downloaded
all the developer files and run time files for gtk2 for windows, and
added the following to my configure.in:
case $host in
*-*-cygwin* )
WIN32=yes
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS ${CYGWIN_CFLAGS:--mms-bitfields
-mno-cygwin -mwindows}"
CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS ${CYGWIN_CPPFLAGS:--mms-bitfields
-mno-cygwin -mwindows}"
;;
*-*-mingw* )
WIN32=yes
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS ${MINGW_CFLAGS:--mms-bitfields -mwindows}"
CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS ${MINGW_CPPFLAGS:--mms-bitfields
-mwindows}"
;;
* )
WIN32=no
esac
After that everything pretty much just worked.
-Dan
