I use vmware to run a install and use Windows on a virtual PC hosted on
my Linux box. It can also run Linux in a virtual machine hosted by
Windows ( though I haven't tried this )
Recently VMWare have started to supply a free (as in beer, not as in
speech) VMWare "player" that allows a virtual machine (prepared with a
licenced copy of VMWare) to run on a PC ( either Linux or Windows ). See
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/vm/ubuntu.html
The point of this, is that it looks like it would be possible to prepare
a virtual Linux machine pre-loaded with the Geda tools that could be
played with the VMWare player running on Windows.
Not satisfactory from the point of view of FLOSS philosophy, but it
might save somebody some time.
I hasten to add that I haven't done this myself - I use Cadence Allegro
on a Linux desktop for my day job - and why would anybody run Windows at
home ;-)
Cheers,
David
Timmerman, Bert wrote:
Hi all,
FWIW: I'm being told that M$ Virtual PC 2004 is capable of emulating a HD (FD,
CD an NIC) and that one can install a Linux distro.
You can have a look at http://vpc.visualwin.com/.
Not all *nix distro's are supported though.
YMMV and haven't done that, haven't been there.
Just my EUR 0.02
Kind regards,
Bert Timmerman.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf
Of Larrie Carr
Sent: zaterdag 4 februari 2006 19:17
To: geda-dev@seul.org
Subject: Re: gEDA: building under cygwin
Not a test to see if everything was working - a test if guile is working
properly under cygwin (Alex's comment).
I've run through about 3 test cases (examples on the network) and have found
the only hard to fix problem being the shifting libraries names and
footprints.
gschem, gnetlist, gsymbols, gerbv and pcb all seem to be playing nice. pcb
over tightvnc is a little rough, but I can live without that.
Larrie.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan McMahill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <geda-dev@seul.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 2:55 AM
Subject: Re: gEDA: building under cygwin
Larrie Carr wrote:
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.
Do you mean a definitive test to see if everything is working?
What I'd do is run gschem to see if you can create a simple schematic.
Then run gnetlist to see if you can netlist the design. If those two
things work, then that's most of it.
There are a number of other utilities, but I wouldn't worry about testing
each of them. If gschem and gnetlist are working at all, then I think
you're past the big (if any) hurdles. Any other issues are likely to be
small and relatively easy to fix.
-Dan
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