Re: gEDA: building under cygwin

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 3, 2006, at 12:08 PM, Larrie Carr wrote:

> 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's no doubt because nobody maintains it. Linux apparently  
predominates among the developers, although Charles Lepple maintains  
MacOSX fink packages (thanks, Charles). Won't be tested against  
Cygwin unless somebody who uses Cygwin volunteers.

> 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).

Submit the patches to Ales. I don't have time to fight with Windows,  
but I sometimes work with contractors who use it. It would sometimes  
be handier to exchange .sch and .sym files instead of graphics and  
netlists, so you'd have my thanks.

> 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.

You're off the beaten path. So, do a little pioneering. That's how  
the work gets done.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
jpd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx