Re: gEDA: building under cygwin

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

Actually, Cygwin was probably a good idea about 10 years ago.
However, nowadays you can throw Linux on any garden variety PC, so why
bother to fool around with Cygwin?

Stuart


> 
> As I dig through the archives, I see this topic coming up from time to time. 
> However, I don't understand the history behind why cygwin is not supported 
> using the standard build scripts.
> 
> It appears (after testing for a month) that building under cygwin is 
> possible with minor changes to the source (based on sources from the 2005 
> geda suite ISO and the cygwin 5.0 setup program).  For instance, the hardest 
> was in gnetlist given a strange interaction with *optarg being defined in 
> parsecmd.c (commenting out the unneccessary declaration fixed the problem).
> 
> Either I'm way off the beaten path (and nobody else cares), or I'm missing 
> something during my testing and will hit it when I get around to doing 
> something useful.
> 
> Larrie. 
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