Re: gEDA-user: geda, pcb and cygwin

2007-06-21 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 13:09 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:31:53 -0400, Dan McMahill wrote: > If I got him right, he produced the binaries for the install file he > posted that way. The result is impressive --- The file installed like a > charme. No cygwin, no Xserver. T

Re: gEDA-user: geda, pcb and cygwin

2007-06-21 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:31:53 -0400, Dan McMahill wrote: > 1) building on cygwin and running with the X version of gtk under > cygwin - you should just be able to do the usual > >./configure >make >make install > > If you don't want png/jpeg/gif export then use the configure option

Re: gEDA-user: geda, pcb and cygwin

2007-06-20 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 18:05 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > As for the modified cross-compile-build-script --- Yes, I am > interested > to receive a copy. PM is on its way. Shell script to build the installer... http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/build_installer Apologies for the hard-code

Re: gEDA-user: geda, pcb and cygwin

2007-06-20 Thread Dan McMahill
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > You may remember that I planned to distribute geda+pcb on virtual > machines to local students. This was not appreciated. A stripped down > linux machine turned out to be even more challenging to a windows user > than a full featured desktop environment :-| > > Today,

Re: gEDA-user: geda, pcb and cygwin

2007-06-20 Thread Peter Baxendale
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 18:05 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > * There is an error report on start-up of pcb: Error message is actually > german because this is the native language of my winXP. Roughly > translated it says: "Can't find file "ListLibraryContents.sh" and The file is a shell script

Re: gEDA-user: geda, pcb and cygwin

2007-06-20 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:19:22 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: >> Win32 Native - no support offered: >> http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/geda/pcbinst-1.99v.exe > > Thanks a bundle! I'll try that file. My milage might vary :-) Here is my mileage so far: * The installer worked as expected. It even installs

Re: gEDA-user: geda, pcb and cygwin

2007-06-20 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:57:52 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > I cross-compiled with mingw under Linux, so can't help regarding Cygwin. Ah! Good point. I didn't think about that route. > Win32 Native - no support offered: > http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/geda/pcbinst-1.99v.exe Thanks a bundle! I'll try

Re: gEDA-user: geda, pcb and cygwin

2007-06-20 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 12:03 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > From a usability point of view, he does have some valid points about > > Unix paradigms being present still, which may mean its harder to use > > for some people. > > If you could get him to write up a summary of the issues, I'd be > interes

Re: gEDA-user: geda, pcb and cygwin

2007-06-20 Thread DJ Delorie
> From a usability point of view, he does have some valid points about > Unix paradigms being present still, which may mean its harder to use > for some people. If you could get him to write up a summary of the issues, I'd be interested in seeing it.

Re: gEDA-user: geda, pcb and cygwin

2007-06-20 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 16:57 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > Win32 Native - no support offered: > http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/geda/pcbinst-1.99v.exe Sorry, http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/pcbinst-1.99v.exe Peter ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: geda, pcb and cygwin

2007-06-20 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 14:00 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > You may remember that I planned to distribute geda+pcb on virtual > machines to local students. This was not appreciated. A stripped down > linux machine turned out to be even more challenging to a windows user > than a full featured d

Re: gEDA-user: geda, pcb and cygwin

2007-06-20 Thread John Griessen
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > You may remember that I planned to distribute geda+pcb on virtual > machines to local students. This was not appreciated. A stripped down > linux machine turned out to be even more challenging to a windows user > than a full featured desktop environment :-| I've been e

gEDA-user: geda, pcb and cygwin

2007-06-20 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
You may remember that I planned to distribute geda+pcb on virtual machines to local students. This was not appreciated. A stripped down linux machine turned out to be even more challenging to a windows user than a full featured desktop environment :-| Today, I tried to build the electronics too