The strongest counter-argument I'd make to running cygwin is that xastir runs in about 1/5th of the CPU load in the Antix VM under VMWare Player 2.x than running the same version of Xastir, under Cygwin.
Also, Cygwin requires a big chunk of available memory to link Xastir. I think all of the libraries have to be loaded at the same time, for the linker to link the project. It was a problem on my dual-PIII machine, which was at 512M for a long time. 73, Bob, KD7NM On Sunday 01 February 2009 09:51:06 Alex Carver wrote: > --- On Sun, 2/1/09, Curt, WE7U wrote: > 9, 12:44 PM > > > On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Alex Carver wrote: > > > Unfortunately this fix is entirely dependent on the > > > > Cygwin mirrors > > > > > chosen. If the mirror still has a copy of the 6.x > > > > version of > > > > > xorg-x11-devel then you'll be ok. If not, > > > > there's no way to get > > > > > around the bug. I tried this same fix for a full > > > > weekend a couple > > > > > weeks ago but I couldn't find a mirror that would > > > > let me go that > > > > > far back with the versions. > > > > Another method is to run VMWare Player and one of the > > vmware images > > that contains Xastir on Linux. More reliable long-term > > than Cygwin > > if you've got enough memory and horsepower to run two > > OS'es at once. > > > > If no, there's always the possibility of piecing > > together an old PC > > out of spare parts and installing Linux. > > Amazingly enough an upgrade of Cygwin on a machine that compiled fine > still seems to work. So the obsolete package never gets removed. But > it's pretty obvious that the Cygwin people forgot something and broke > it. I imagine it'll get cleared up after a few more rounds of rewrites. > > There are certain advantages to Cygwin over the VM. For starters, you > don't have to wrestle with the configuration of system hardware to make > the VM work (network, serial ports, etc.) It just works right away > under Cygwin. > > I've never had an opportunity to try out a VM version of Xastir but I do > now have a copy of the Xastir image and I just have to download the VM > player to see what happens. My Linux machine that was running Xastir > has a nasty hardware problem somewhere and it locks up. I think it's > several bad capacitor on the motherboard. I found one leaking. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
