Re: gEDA-user: Cygwin still supported?

[Alberto Maccioni <alberto.maccioni@xxxxxxxxx>]

You should have an X environment working and GTK 2.x.
See if you can open nedit, it uses X.


2010/3/26 David MacQuigg <macquigg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Alberto Maccioni wrote:
>>
>> I forgot to mention that you have to install an x-server (of course,
>> otherwise how would it display anything?); I have libX11 and some
>> other subpackages.
>>
>
> I see in the current Cygwin distribution 5 packages with names starting
> libX11.  I've installed libX11_6, the "core library" runtime, and a few
> other packages it brought in.  Results are the same.  Any others I should
> install.
>
>> What .bin name are you talking about? The attachment is called setup.bin
>>
>
> The "setup.ini" link at the bottom of your last message is actually a file
> with a cryptic name.  Here is the HTML
> copied from your message:
>   <a href="bintih8V8jzr7.bin" ><tt>setup.ini</tt></a>
>
> -- Dave
>
>> 2010/3/25 David MacQuigg <macquigg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>>>
>>> Alberto wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I currently use gEDA with Cygwin, it works perfectly. I even created a
>>>> package and submitted it to Cygwin-apps to be included in the main list
>>>> but
>>>> so far it hasn't been accepted. You can dowload it manually at:
>>>> http://geda.seul.org/devel/cygwin/1.6.x/1.6.1/
>>>>
>>>
>>> Got it.  Downloaded geda-gaf-1.6.1-1.tar.bz2 and setup.hint to
>>> ../cygwin/geda/geda-gaf/
>>> Also put the setup.ini file at ../cygwin/geda/  Note: this file has a
>>> long
>>> cryptic name ending in .bin, which I tried to rename as setup.ini.  This
>>> failed, so I left the filename as is.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Create a directory of choice, copy the attached setup.ini in that, and
>>>> put
>>>> geda-gaf-1.6.1-1.tar.bz2 and setup.hint in a subdirectory named
>>>> geda-gaf.
>>>> Now execute cygwin setup and choose to install packets from the local
>>>> directory where you put setup.ini. You should find gEDA as the only item
>>>> in
>>>> the list of packages and install it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The install finished without errors, and I see the geda hierarchy at
>>> /home/User/geda as expected.  However, we still seem to have missing
>>> Cygwin
>>> packages!  Looks like maybe gtk** is missing.
>>>
>>> $ gschem
>>> <gschem:1036>: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
>>> $ startx
>>> bash: startx: command not found
>>>
>>> There was no indication of missing dependencies from setup.exe.
>>>
>>> I'll try VirtualBox this weekend.
>>>
>>> -- Dave
>>>
>>>
>
>
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