RE: gEDA-user: building under Cygwin

["Mike Hansen" <mehansen10@hotmail.com>]

PCB builds just fine under cygwin with XFree86 installed.  I have NOT, 
however, found a way to build gEDA under Cygwin.  I would also be interested 
to hear from anyone if it's possible to build it under cygwin and get out 
from under the stale mingw build.

> From: "Alex Gerdemann" <null_soup@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: geda-user@seul.org
> To: geda-user@geda.seul.org
> Subject: gEDA-user: building under Cygwin
> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:45:39 +0000
>
> Hello,
>
> I apologize if this has been asked before; I scanned the archives without 
> success.
>
> Just found out about the gEDA project on the web, and was very excited.  I 
> have been looking for quality electronics design tools that don't cost 
> thousands of dollars for some time, and gEDA looks like it's exactly what I 
> want.
>
> However, I am a Cygwin user, and would prefer to not have to also use 
> MinGW.  I just attempted to build gEDA under Cygwin and had the build 
> process dump me saying, "Building gEDA/gaf under cygwin is not supported."  
> Since MinGW is actually a fork of Cygwin, it ought to be quite similar.  
> Also, the required libraries (guile, gtk, etc.) are available as prebuilt 
> packages under Cygwin.  So build process in principal could be simpler than 
> in MinGW.  What would it take to make the build work under Cygwin?  I did 
> notice that the Cygwin was the Win32 platform of choice in some of the 
> older versions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alex
>
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