On 2014-08-25 11:23 AM, Conor Cook wrote:
At some point, possibly at the installation of Cygwin, I got a Program Files (x86) folder along with the normal Program Files folder, and now I have applications in each.
This is normal for 64 bit systems. One of the folders is for 64 bit programs, the other for 32 bit ones (the one with x86). Programs installed to the 32 bit folder are "legacy" in that they still use the 32 bit architecture rather than the new 64 bit one. Cygwin does have a 64 bit version, so you'll want to check and make sure that you installed it, not the 32 bit version.
I have to ask whether it would be better to have it all installed under Windows natively, rather than introducing a Cygwin environment?
Depends on what you mean by better. If you're looking to use the most recent version of Gregorio, then the Cygwin installation is better because it allows you to compile directly from source yourself. With a native installation, you would have to wait for the developers to update the windows installer before upgrading Gregorio. In terms of ease of installation, the native route is better because you're using automated installers (for the most part, if your normal user account is not an administrator then you have to manually configure TeXworks for that account). In terms of ease of use, I'm not sure if there is a difference because I've never setup a Cygwin installation. Assuming that some set of the TeXworks scripts can be adapted to be used under Cygwin, then there should be no difference.
I installed under the Cygwin prompt. I am currently looking into configuring a la Linux, though I have to wait for another process to complete.
Oh, one thing I should note is that the Linux (and Mac) scripts are written in tcsh, not bash (the default shell for Cygwin). You'll need the tcsh-6.18.01-1 package for Cygwin as a result in order to use them. I used tcsh because that's what the sample scripts I started with were written in. I probably should rewrite them to bash at some point, but it's not a high priority since they work fine as is. ✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝ Br. Samuel, OSB (R. Padraic Springuel) PAX ☧ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ _______________________________________________ Gregorio-users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users
