Re: gEDA: building under cygwin

["Larrie Carr" <larrie@xxxxxxxxx>]

*sigh*

I really don't want this to drop into a linux/cygwin/mingw/win32/etc 
argument.

Larrie.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Wilson"
To: <geda-dev@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 11:16 AM
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.