Re: gEDA-user: geda, pcb and cygwin

[Peter Baxendale <peter.baxendale@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 18:05 +0000, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> * There is an error report on start-up of pcb: Error message is actually 
> german because this is the native language of my winXP. Roughly 
> translated it says: "Can't find file "ListLibraryContents.sh" and 

The file is a shell script which, I think, lists the files in the
library path to standard out. It should probably be removed from the
source in win32 or replaced with something which works or is harmless. I
temporarily replaced it with a 'do nothing' win32 executable.

> * I like to work with local component libraries. Setting the path to the 
> local lib fails.  The reason seems to be misinterpretation of the colon 
> in windows paths. What syntax should be used for the list of paths?
> Maybe this is a consequence of the missing ListLibraryContents.sh?

I know that in msys you access c: by /c/ (ie the c drive is available as
directory c in the root). I don't know if this works in the pcb
executable?

I too have played with building a win32 version of pcb and ended up with
something which "sort of works" for "most things" but with quirks. For
me, that's not good enough to let loose on my students. Even though I
have no interest in using a win32 version of pcb and geda myself, I'm
prepared to spend some time on getting this working for my students. But
I find it hard going because of my lack of knowledge of win32 and mingw
- for instance on those issues of path specifications - and there seems
little documentation around. If anyone wants to share their
knowledge/experiences off this list, I'd be happy to hear from them.
-- 
Peter Baxendale
Durham University
School of Engineering



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