Can you suggest a quick definitive test? The version of guile that I tested
came from the cygwin setup and appears to be functional out of the box.
While the mingw port would be the preferred route, it appears to require a
greater level of hacking skill.
Larrie.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ales Hvezda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <geda-dev@seul.org>
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 8:52 PM
Subject: Re: gEDA: building under cygwin
Hi,
Okay, I should chime in now. :)
Maybe I phrased the question too naively given this response. I was
looking
for something a little more technically oriented given the make scripts go
out of their way to stop a cygwin build. But thanks.
Yes, the scripts go out of their way to stop the cygwin build
mainly because guile didn't work so well under cygwin. Maybe that has
changed, but but way back when, guile got really confused with how cygwin
does path translation.
However, gEDA/gaf does ./configure and should work using a mingw
and msys environment (along with a hacked but working mingw built guile).
I haven't tried to build the latest tarball using mingw and there are
probably lots of (but fixable) issues.
-Ales
PS. As Al and Stuart pointed out, yes, the mingw port has been severely
neglected mainly because a dedicated win32 hacker hasn't stepped up
to the challange. I am always willing to help and answer any porting
related questions and maybe even fix issues here and there, but I
simply do not have the time to invest in the win32 port right now.
I'm too busy trying to solve the Linux binary problem first. :)
