On Feb 3, 2006, at 12:08 PM, Larrie Carr wrote:
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's no doubt because nobody maintains it. Linux apparently predominates among the developers, although Charles Lepple maintains MacOSX fink packages (thanks, Charles). Won't be tested against Cygwin unless somebody who uses Cygwin volunteers.
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).
Submit the patches to Ales. I don't have time to fight with Windows, but I sometimes work with contractors who use it. It would sometimes be handier to exchange .sch and .sym files instead of graphics and netlists, so you'd have my thanks.
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.
You're off the beaten path. So, do a little pioneering. That's how the work gets done.
John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
