Re: gEDA-user: PCB under Window$

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 04:22:52PM +0000, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I managed to install PCB
> http://pcb.sourceforge.net
> on M$ Window$ successfully and simply.
> 
> First I installed Cygwin and clicked up bunch of reasonable options
> (X, gcc, GNU Make, and lots more)
> 
> Then I downloaded the source from the PCB official webpage and did
> ./configure --prefix=/usr
> make
> make install
> 
> Then I started Cygwin, typed "startx" (this started X Window System) with
> another commandline shell, and then I just typed "pcb twister.pcb" and
> could edit the PCB.
> 
> Does anyone has experience with PCB on Windows? Has anyone experienced
> any problems during that?

I tried it out once and it seemed fine, but then my access to windows
went away so I hadn't done anything else to test it.

> It's a 800MHz notebook and it's rather slow (due to the CPU speed,
> cygwin/Windows inefficiency and also I suspect PCB from being written
> poorly froom speed point of view).
 
Its more likely just that the X server in cygwin is slow.  I've run
PCB on much slower machines than yours under solaris and NetBSD and
didn't have speed issues but did notice that when I tried under cygwin
it was a bit slow.

-Dan

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