Re: gEDA-dev: windows installers -- push it a bit more

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 23:19 +0000, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:48:43 -0400, Ales Hvezda wrote:
> 
> > [snip]
> >>  * gschem: Peter Clifton reported success for a crosscompile with
> >>  Mingw32 after some tweaking.
> > 
> > I built (read: hacked up) gschem for w32 and experienced the following
> > issues:
> 
> Did you cross compile on a linux box. Or did you compile in a cygwin 
> environment?

> > 1) it does _not_ really build without some unpleasant hacks and,
> 
> Can you be a bit more specific? What did the hacks involve?

For a start, look at the commits on Cesar's git repository (wip branch):

http://repo.or.cz/w/geda-gaf/cesar.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/mingw/wip

IIRC, the pu branch this was based on has been merged. (Although I can't
remember for certain).

Running the finished product may require some environment variables to
be setup, I can't recall the full details, although GUILE rings a bell,
as does GEDA{RC,DATA}DIR or something like.

> > 2) there are some unacceptable performance issues.  For example: try
> > dragging (move/copy/place) a _simple_ component around; it will be
> > extremely choppy and consume 100% of the CPU.
> 
> Do you think this is some kind of GTK/gdk issue?

It could even be the same issues we faced with composited desktops, and
"might" be improved with the last release.

Ales: Did you try this with a later gEDA version (e.g. 1.4.0)?


Best wishes,
-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
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