gEDA-dev: Cygwin installation packages

[Dan McMahill]

Cesar Strauss wrote:

> I have also compiled gschem on MinGW, and I intend to send patches soon. I first
> want to start from a clean state, to make sure I did't forget anything. If it is
> stable enough, perhaps we could try making a Windows installer...

it sounds like Jason has already done the right thing to let the cygwin 
installer install gEDA.  If you're interested in a native windows 
installer, I've actually created all of the framework to generate one 
for pcb and this is all in CVS.  In fact, with the correct cygwin setup 
(need native windows gtk to be available), you can in pretty much one 
step build pcb for native windows and create a native windows installer 
for it.  The catch is that although it runs, you can load/save or load 
library elements.  Doh!  The fix would actually be quite simple.  There 
are a handful of places where pcb uses "cat file" and reads it with 
popen() and also where it writes to "cat > file" with popen().  If that 
behaviour were changed to just fopen() the files when on windows I think 
pcb would completely work as a native windows app.  It just hasn't been 
high on my todo list.

oh, I brought this up because if you're looking for an example of how to 
make a windows installer, thats a place you can look.  See the win32 
subdirectory in the pcb CVS.

-Dan