RE: gEDA: building under cygwin

["Martin, Rick A \(STP\)" <Rick.Martin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

How about Dev C++
mingw32-gcc-3.4.2

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-geda-dev@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-geda-dev@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Steven Wilson
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 1:17 PM
To: geda-dev@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: gEDA: building under cygwin

Stuart,

I use Cygwin EVERY day on a Windows box that I have to keep Windows.  It
allows me to use Xterms, a familiar command sequence and have a command 
line capability on what otherwise wants to be a GUI system.   I expect I

am a typical user.  I can't put Linux on this box because of other
applications I HAVE to run for work.  So Cygwin is a great idea TODAY
for my uses.

Steve Wilson

Stuart Brorson wrote:
> 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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