Re: gEDA-user: minipack-result -- gerbview

2011-05-11 Thread Cesar Strauss
On 05/11/2011 01:21 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > When run with wine, gerbview.exe shows a GUI where all text fails to > render. The gerber view itself is fine as long as one of the lower render > options are selected. No antialias, no transparency. There is some spew > on the command line (see

Re: gEDA-user: crosscompile for windows with minipack

2011-05-11 Thread Cesar Strauss
On 05/10/2011 11:05 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > As mentioned in the thread "Where is pcb-20100929 for Win32 ?" > I tried to go the minipack way to crosscompile geda and PCB for > windows. There were warnings at compile time -- about 2200 lines. I get a ton of those as well. I should probably

Re: gEDA-user: Where is pcb-20100929 for Win32 ?

2011-05-10 Thread Cesar Strauss
On 05/10/2011 04:28 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > Hmm. The script got stuck at the download of libgd. The site www.libgd.org > seems to be down. The address resolves to 213.251.181.15 which does not > even respond to ping :-| This site has been down for quite a while. I have just found the loca

Re: gEDA-user: pcb-20100929 released

2011-04-21 Thread Cesar Strauss
On 04/19/2011 05:17 AM, Felix Ruoff wrote: > I just want to mention, that Cesar Strauss has written a new > build-script last year, which he has posted to the launchpad bug 699494 Sorry, it isn't exactly an entirely new build script. Actually, it's just the regular minipack scr

Re: gEDA-user: pcb-20100929 released

2011-04-21 Thread Cesar Strauss
On 04/19/2011 04:39 AM, Duncan Drennan wrote: > A question in this regard - if I rebuild a library (e.g. gtk+) do I > then need to rebuild all the packages which come after it in the > build-all.sh script? It depends. Rebuilding only the library should work when upgrading it to a newer version, bu

Re: gEDA-user: pcb-20100929 released

2011-04-15 Thread Cesar Strauss
On 04/15/2011 06:32 PM, Duncan Drennan wrote: For a development release, you would need to run "./autogen.sh" or autoreconf in the pixman source dir to generate ./configure Did that and now pixman compiles correctly. I reverted minipack to cross-build a stable release of pixman (0.20.2). Ne

Re: gEDA-user: pcb-20100929 released

2011-04-03 Thread Cesar Strauss
On 03/27/2011 05:20 PM, Duncan Drennan wrote: Sure. I'll take the opportunity to update the latest libraries. I included the mingw pcb patch (already in git) for building the latest released pcb snapshot with minipack. Enjoy! If, by any chance, you also want to cross-compile the developer ve

Re: gEDA-user: pcb-20100929 released

2011-03-27 Thread Cesar Strauss
On 03/25/2011 05:33 AM, Duncan Drennan wrote: Would you be able to push the code which builds successfully to the minipack repo? Sure. I'll take the opportunity to update the latest libraries. Regards, Cesar ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@m

Re: gEDA-user: Windows gEDA port

2011-01-25 Thread Cesar Strauss
On 1/25/2011 10:56 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: Right, but there's a minipack setup in pcb's git, so I'm running it *from* within git, and I want to build the version I have, not the version in git. In this case, my version had all the mingw patches I wanted to test before committing them. Are you

Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

2010-12-12 Thread Cesar Strauss
On 12/12/2010 15:14, Martin Kupec wrote: On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 05:05:46PM +, Peter Clifton wrote: On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 17:56 +0100, Martin Kupec wrote: I am interested in the build process? Peter, how have you build this? mingw32 + Cesar Strauss's minipack build system.

Re: gEDA-user: pcb-20100929 released

2010-10-09 Thread Cesar Strauss
On 10/04/2010 01:11 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: > >> After porting pcb_spawnvp (in src/action.c) to Windows, it built fine on >> Ubuntu using my cross-compiler build script (minipack). I'll work on a >> patch. Fortunately, the Windows API already provides an implementation >> of spawnvp. > > Excelle

Re: gEDA-user: pcb-20100929 released

2010-10-04 Thread Cesar Strauss
On 4/10/2010 01:11, DJ Delorie wrote: Excellent! If you could put "update the readme and built script for windows" high on the priority list, it will save us much headache in the future. One way would be to directly add my script to the pcb sources. I would trim it down for building only pcb

Re: gEDA-user: pcb-20100929 released

2010-10-03 Thread Cesar Strauss
On 09/29/2010 11:58 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: If someone can get the mingw builds working again, I'd appreciate that - neither the win32/build_pcb script nor a fedora mingw cross compiler work for me. After porting pcb_spawnvp (in src/action.c) to Windows, it built fine on Ubuntu using my cross-co

Re: gEDA-user: Portable gEDA for Windows

2010-09-19 Thread Cesar Strauss
On 19/9/2010 16:08, Chris Malton wrote: Are you trying to tell me that I need to upload the unmodified sources for gEDA, pcb, Cygwin and co? It is the safest way, yes. Consider if any of the home sites went offline, or changed the source page URL. Then you would no longer have permission to d

Re: gEDA-user: Portable gEDA for Windows

2010-09-19 Thread Cesar Strauss
On 19/9/2010 13:34, Chris Malton wrote: Downloads from http://portablegaf.cmalton.me.uk Please be sure you comply with clause 3 of GPL v2, which ensures anyone can get the exact sources for the software you distribute. In your case, this includes the GPL'd parts of gEDA and Cygwin you include

Re: gEDA-user: arcs in pcb

2010-01-28 Thread Cesar Strauss
Mark Rages wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:47 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: Resoloution is one degree - it's not a float. Is there any way to get better resolution? One degree is 25 mils at my radius. Possible workaround: Draw your arc to the nearest integer degree, then complete the arc with a

Re: gEDA-user: Test gschem bug...

2010-01-19 Thread Cesar Strauss
Bert Timmerman wrote: BTW: keeping all sources for a windows port available on-line for three years is something of a spoiler :( I do not think this is the case. You either: 1) Have all the sources on-line. 2) Keep the sources off-line for three years. Either way, if you remove the binaries

Re: gEDA-user: Test gschem bug...

2010-01-19 Thread Cesar Strauss
Cesar Strauss wrote: Peter Clifton wrote: Does it make any difference if you edit gschem.c, and change: setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "POSIX"); to setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C"); Interesting. Changing from "POSIX" to "C" fixes the Postscript issue, as well as

Re: gEDA-user: Test gschem bug...

2010-01-19 Thread Cesar Strauss
Peter Clifton wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 11:23 -0200, Cesar Strauss wrote: By going to the Control Panel -> Regional Options, and choosing between Portuguese and English, I can change the output at will. Can you reproduce it on your Windows laptop? I ought to be able to try that later,

Re: gEDA-user: New gaf on Windows and one PCB question

2010-01-19 Thread Cesar Strauss
Peter Clifton wrote: Behdad's suggested fix was to use non string based API to request the font family and size explictly, hence the attached patch. Cesar, perhaps you want to pick this up in minipack for 1.6.0 (I'll see about getting something sorted for 1.6.1). Pushed to the minipack reposi

Re: gEDA-user: Test gschem bug...

2010-01-19 Thread Cesar Strauss
Peter Clifton wrote: I'm trying to nail the root cause of this now.. Could you try with this version of gschem (which should spew a load of "1,23 = 1,23" or something similar. (To the console - assuming you can retrieve that output). I get: Debugging font issue, 1,23 = 1,23 By going

Re: gEDA-user: New gaf on Windows and one PCB question

2010-01-18 Thread Cesar Strauss
Peter Clifton wrote: On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 21:06 +, Peter Clifton wrote: On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 22:45 -0200, Cesar Strauss wrote: Peter Clifton wrote: On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 16:50 +0100, Bert Timmerman wrote: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ljh4timm/downloads/gschem-1.6.0-full%20screen.png http

Re: gEDA-user: New gaf on Windows and one PCB question

2010-01-17 Thread Cesar Strauss
Peter Clifton wrote: On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 16:50 +0100, Bert Timmerman wrote: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ljh4timm/downloads/gschem-1.6.0-full%20screen.png http://www.xs4all.nl/~ljh4timm/downloads/gschem-1.6.0-zoomed%20in.png http://www.xs4all.nl/~ljh4timm/downloads/gschem-1.6.0-max%20zoomed%20in.pn

Re: gEDA-user: New gaf on Windows and one PCB question

2010-01-17 Thread Cesar Strauss
Duncan Drennan wrote: Cesar, have the patches to minipack for geda 1.6.0 that Peter provided a while back been merged into the repo? I assume you mean these: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cad.geda.user/26246 Yes, I merged them after 1.6.0 was released (thanks Peter!). Looking back, it

Re: gEDA-user: New gaf on Windows and one PCB question

2010-01-16 Thread Cesar Strauss
Peter Clifton wrote: On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 09:08 -0200, Cesar Strauss wrote: That would be great! Just remember, to comply with the GPL license, you need to provide all the sources on your site, not only of geda itself, but also for all the library dependencies (guile, gtk, etc.). (Cough), I

Re: gEDA-user: New gaf on Windows and one PCB question

2010-01-16 Thread Cesar Strauss
Bert Timmerman wrote: Do you happen to have a "howto geda-gaf on windows" write-up somewhere around so I/others can try to patch and rebuild ? I am the author of the windows build script (minipack), and can help to get you going. I have written some instructions here: http://code.google.com/p

Re: gEDA-user: Disappearing PCB Footprint details

2009-09-23 Thread Cesar Strauss
Stefan Salewski wrote: > On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 15:10 -0400, Tony Radice wrote: >> Update: >> Ladies and Gentlemen - >> I experimented with the footprints I had developed in a unique >> directory (/home/comp/pwb_footprints) and had no success with "seeing" >> them in the pcb tool. > > I think m

Re: gEDA-user: minipack issues

2009-07-09 Thread Cesar Strauss
Duncan Drennan wrote: > Once the compilation is done, will the files run "as is" or do the > dll's have to be installed into specific windows directories? The dll's should remain beside the exe's in the "bin" directory. Currently, to run the resulting exe's, you have to set the following environm

Re: gEDA-user: minipack issues

2009-07-09 Thread Cesar Strauss
Duncan Drennan wrote: >> It seems wget is failing to get the source for the JPEG library for some >> reason. > > After a bit of searching I found out that if I use the --passive-ftp > option with wget then the download succeeds. > > Is there a way via a config or recipe file to set flags for wget

Re: gEDA-user: minipack issues

2009-07-08 Thread Cesar Strauss
Duncan Drennan wrote: > I've been trying to compile gEDA for win32 using minipack, but it > keeps failing while downloading the packages. It successfully > downloads gettext and libiconv, but then all further packages have > this result: > > Downloading jpeg from ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpe

gEDA-user: Rule-based assignment of default attributes

2009-01-17 Thread Cesar Strauss
Hi, I just thought about a way to have defaults for footprint assignments and such, while keeping it easy to change them project-wide, and at the same time keeping local customizations. How about having a text file, with rules like: match device=RESISTOR assign footprint=1206 Then, any resistor

Re: gEDA-user: Using the currently available binary I end up with this response

2008-06-24 Thread Cesar Strauss
Gregg Levine wrote: [...] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/geda-0.0.2/bin$ ./geda > /usr/local/geda-0.0.2/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:72: > GtkWarning: could not open display Are you logging in using ssh? If so, you must use the -X option to be able to run graphical applicati

Re: gEDA-user: Windows version of gerbv

2008-04-23 Thread Cesar Strauss
Rick Collins wrote: > Thanks for the response. > > At 12:06 PM 4/22/2008, you wrote: >>> I tried installing the current version of gerbv under Win2K SP4. It >>> installed ok and started. But when I tried opening a Gerber file it >>> crashed. It also crashed when I opened an XYRS file. Is there

Re: gEDA-user: first impressions on gaf v1.2.0

2007-10-07 Thread Cesar Strauss
Stuart Brorson wrote: >> We may >> just have to resign ourselves to seeing a jump as the window is first >> shown, then moved. > > In this case, the cure is worse than the disease. > What if, you move the window, show it, then move it again (to the same position, just to be sure). On systems whi

Re: gEDA-user: database driven component chooser - part II

2007-09-30 Thread Cesar Strauss
DJ Delorie wrote: >> And another thing. I have no name for my program. If someone have an idea, it >> is welcome too. > > gheavy? ;-) part2sym dbsym sympick ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listi

Re: gEDA-user: dialogue boxes drifting each time they are opened (gschem 1.2.0)

2007-09-16 Thread Cesar Strauss
Cesar Strauss wrote: Ben Jackson wrote: Duncan Drennan wrote: This can be especially frustrating with attribute dialogues that keep drifting off the bottom of the screen, and have to be dragged back to a useable place. I'm running gschem on cygwin. Anyone else seeing this? Yes, gsch

Re: gEDA-user: dialogue boxes drifting each time they are opened (gschem 1.2.0)

2007-09-15 Thread Cesar Strauss
Ben Jackson wrote: > Duncan Drennan wrote: >> This can be especially frustrating with attribute dialogues that keep >> drifting off the bottom of the screen, and have to be dragged back to >> a useable place. >> >> I'm running gschem on cygwin. >> >> Anyone else seeing this? > > Yes, gschem on cyg

gEDA-user: Re: Windows install

2007-02-20 Thread Cesar Strauss
David Kerber wrote: > I'm a newbie to gEDA, and was wondering if anybody knows of a Windows > installation for it? I know there's no officially supported one, but am > hoping somebody has built one, or knows where there might be one. A google > search turned up one from 2003, but nothing since.

gEDA-user: Re: Status of the Windows port of gEDA/gaf

2006-12-17 Thread Cesar Strauss
Karel Kulhavy wrote: > Cesar Strauss wrote: [...] >> I have been building native gschem on Windows for some time. > > What compiler do you use for that? > I use the native port of GCC from the MinGW project (www.mingw.org), together with the MSYS environment that supp

gEDA-user: Status of the Windows port of gEDA/gaf

2006-12-11 Thread Cesar Strauss
Hello, In view of the recent discussions about the Windows port, I think it is time to make a progress report, and clear some misconceptions. I have been building native gschem on Windows for some time. It is not that hard, really. The existence of a native port of GTK is a great help. I struggle

gEDA-user: Re: strange build failure

2006-12-05 Thread Cesar Strauss
Andy Peters wrote: On Dec 2, 2006, at 4:40 PM, Ales Hvezda wrote: [snip] guile-config compile and guile-config link and guile-config info I'm guessing that is where the /home/janneke/... is coming from. Ah, guile-config link and guile-config info both reveal the /home/janneke/ stuff.

gEDA-user: Re: gschem fonts issue on cygwin

2006-08-19 Thread Cesar Strauss
Ales Hvezda wrote: [snip] As this is beginning to sound more like a drawing bug, I do think the gEDA/gaf bug tracker is the appropriate place to continue this discussion. This particular "bug" (or artifiact whatever) varies depending on the X server. On my desktop, I do not see any a

Re: gEDA-user: Re: gschem fonts issue on cygwin

2006-08-17 Thread Cesar Strauss
[snip] > As an alternative to sending me files off-list, I am beginning to think > it would be appropriate for you (if you wish to do so) to fill the bug > submission form on the gEDA bug submission page, and attach the files there: > > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=161080&atid=818426 >

Re: gEDA-user: Re: gschem fonts issue on cygwin

2006-08-17 Thread Cesar Strauss
Ales Hvezda wrote: > Craig wrote: >> Thanks super, Cesar. Same issue with MingX--I sent you snapshots of both. >> Note that I'm not pressing the mouse button--the trails just appear. It's >> like painting with the mouse. >> > > It is true that a picture is worth a thousand words... (in

gEDA-user: Re: gschem fonts issue on cygwin

2006-08-16 Thread Cesar Strauss
Craig Niederberger wrote: Thanks again, Cesar! Oddly, the pointer trails remain even with the toggle... Craig Pointer trails? Interesting. Does it also happens over the X command terminal window? Does it happens when the pointer is outside the drawing area (over the gschem menu bar, tool b

gEDA-user: Re: gschem fonts issue on cygwin

2006-08-15 Thread Cesar Strauss
Craig Niederberger wrote: Wow--many, many, many thanks--it works now in terms of getting gschem up on the screen. Glad to be helpful. I'm getting weird ghosting when I move the cursor, Please try clicking once on the following menu item: Options->Toggle Outline/Box This will drastica

Re: gEDA-user: gschem fonts issue on cygwin

2006-08-15 Thread Cesar Strauss
Craig wrote: > I’ve just installed the cygwin port of gEDA, and get the following > error when I run ‘gschem’ after startx: > > $ gschem > > gEDA/gschem version 20060123 > > gEDA/gschem comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; see COPYING for more > details. > > This is free software, and you are welcom