On Thu, 10 May 2007 21:18:46 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > Er, gEDA and PCB both run under Windows. It's not easy, but it's > possible.
There is no windows binary to download and no installer to compile from source on a windows machine either. To the vast majority of computer users, including me, this translates into "does not run on win". I'd be happy if there were windows version of gschem and pcb. At my university day-job the absence of a windows version is a major obstacle to move from eagle to geda. The amount of programming/tuning/scripting needed to produce a windows versions of gschem-gnucap-ngspi-pcb-gerbv may be small compared to writing the tool. Still, it is development, yet to be done. >> > I think it should be stated that gEDA is basically a Unix/Linux/GNU >> > application, >> >> ack. > > I'd rather not intentionally put ourselves in the "we're only for Linux" > crowd. The statement was about the application, not about the people. >> Like almost any other linux application it can be run on windows with >> the aid of cygwin or a virtual machine. > > PCB uses mingw - no cygwin, no virtual machine. IMHO mingw and cygwin both provide a framework to let non native applications run on windows. From a user point of view they are both third party tools needed to make non windows application accept the windows environment. ---<(kaimartin)>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak http://lilalaser.de/blog _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user