> Hi,
> 
> I´ve just seen that a new release of PDFedit has just arrived. Well,
> being a Linux user, there´s no problem for me to get it running.
> Unfortunately I have some relatives using only Windows. Well, I wanted
> to install the latest PDFediton on their computers. As there´s only a
> Windows release for the "old" version, I wanted to start the Windows
> port of the latest PDFedit on my own.

Cygwin packages sometimes take time to be built. Usually they appear 
within two days or so from releasing the source tarballs (if I am not busy 
with other things, I'll put them up sooner though)

> So, I assume I only have to install cygwin and ./configure + ./make it to get 
> it running?
> What packages are needed for compilation and for running PDFedit on Windows?
> It would be great to get a list of pacckages I need. 

You need to install only cygwin and then get the binary packages compiled 
for cygwin. Although you can compile it by yourself too - in tools 
directory there is cygwin_build.bat - set path to cygwin instalation there 
and run it. You should end with pdfedit package being built in 
/tmp/pdfedit-package (under cygwin) if all goes well and you have all 
installed.

> As far as I know I need Mesa3D, QT?, 

For compilation you need the same packages as for Linux: Qt3, boost, 
boost::iostreams, freetype. PDFedit will not need Mesa3D. Also, you will 
need the compiler and its tools (g++, gnu make, binutils .... the usual 
stuff)

For optional components (kernel tests, parts documentation...) you may 
need further packages (xsltproc, cppunit, doxygen, docbook xsl stylesheets 
...

> What else?
> 
> (Well, I also can install all available cygwin packges...?)

For running the compiled package you will need probably only the X server, 
qt3 and freetype libraries (and the base cygwin system). Should be enough.

Also note, that pdfedit is currently being rewritten from qt3+qsa to qt4.3 
+qtscript (qt4 branch in CVS, planned to be part of 0.5.0). As it is quite 
huge rewrite, it will take some time, I'd say month at least for some 
usable version. Currently it is in middle of rewrite process and its not 
even compilable now). Aside for fixing memory leaks, improving speed and 
removing few GUI limitations (like ability to change interface language 
and icon theme without program restart) this should have effect of 
enabling native windows build of pdfedit (no need for cygwin anymore, as 
qt4 is opensourced for native windows too, unlike qt3 which is opensourced 
only for X11)

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