Re: gEDA-user: minipack issues

2009-07-16 Thread Duncan Drennan
I never managed to get this to build in cygwin. It failed on the freetype build (IIRC). I'm going to try building it in a virtual box and see how that goes. -- Turn ideas into products - http://www.engineersimplicity.com The Art of Engineering - http://blog.engineersimplicity.com

Re: gEDA-user: minipack issues

2009-07-09 Thread Duncan Drennan
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

2009-07-09 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? In

Re: gEDA-user: minipack issues

2009-07-09 Thread Duncan Drennan
In the command-line, please type: echo passive_ftp=on ~/.wgetrc Thanks Cesar, I'll try that out. I just manually used wget and the passive ftp option to grab the sources. Busy compiling now (on cygwin) which seems to be taking quite long. Hopefully I'll actually get some functional .exe

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 environment

gEDA-user: minipack issues

2009-07-08 Thread Duncan Drennan
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/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz ... --10:31:28--

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