gEDA-dev: Gschem and Cairo graphics library

[Dan McMahill]

Bob Paddock wrote:
> On Monday 31 July 2006 05:26, Levente wrote:
> 

> I "think" Windows is all I'm allowed to use at work.  Like it or not any EDA tool must run
> on Windows, or "gEDA's [and friends are] dead in the water if you're only interested in Linux 
> hobbyists".

Maybe this is more true on the worlds of board design but it is certaily 
not true in the IC world.  It has been many years since I've used any 
windows based EDA tools for work and I use EDA tools every day.

This aside, I would estimate the remaining work to be able to build pcb 
and provide a standalone windows installer so that the end user doesn't 
need cygwin or mingw installed to be only a couple of hours.  grep for 
popen/pclose in the code and if that can be made to use fopen/fclose (as 
a compile time option) then you should be good to go.  Still takes 
cygwin or mingw to compile, but the final result doesn't need either to 
run.  There is a script under pcb/win32 for building and creating the 
installer.

I wonder what amount of work may be involved to use basically the same 
set of scripts (modified for gEDA/gaf) to build gschem.

-Dan