Re: gEDA: building under cygwin

[Steven Wilson <stevew-at-NOSPAMintrinsix_dot_com>]

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
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>> 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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