Re: gEDA: building under cygwin

["Larrie Carr" <larrie-at-NOSPAMtelus_dot_net>]

Can you suggest a quick definitive test?  The version of guile that I tested 
came from the cygwin setup and appears to be functional out of the box.

While the mingw port would be the preferred route, it appears to require a 
greater level of hacking skill.

Larrie.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ales Hvezda" <ahvezda@seul.org>
To: <geda-dev@seul.org>
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 8:52 PM
Subject: Re: gEDA: building under cygwin


> Hi,
>
> Okay, I should chime in now. :)
>
>>Maybe I phrased the question too naively given this response.  I was 
>>looking
>>for something a little more technically oriented given the make scripts go
>>out of their way to stop a cygwin build.  But thanks.
>
> Yes, the scripts go out of their way to stop the cygwin build
> mainly because guile didn't work so well under cygwin. Maybe that has
> changed, but but way back when, guile got really confused with how cygwin
> does path translation.
>
> However, gEDA/gaf does ./configure and should work using a mingw
> and msys environment (along with a hacked but working mingw built guile).
> I haven't tried to build the latest tarball using mingw and there are
> probably lots of (but fixable) issues.
>
> -Ales
>
> PS. As Al and Stuart pointed out, yes, the mingw port has been severely
>    neglected mainly because a dedicated win32 hacker hasn't stepped up
>    to the challange.  I am always willing to help and answer any porting
>    related questions and maybe even fix issues here and there, but I
>    simply do not have the time to invest in the win32 port right now.
>    I'm too busy trying to solve the Linux binary problem first. :)
>
>