Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

[DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> So is mingw-based better so the user doesn't have a huge cygwin
> installation in their c:\cygwin?  It would be nice to have a more
> self-contained install.

The PCB installer is only 9 MB but I haven't tried stripping out debug
information yet.  The only other executable pcb needs is one to set up
the gdk image loader cache at install time.

> How much Unix tools does gEDA really need to run?  Just the Scheme
> interpreter?

I don't think there's much in the way of unix-isms inherent in the
operation of any of the tools, aside from what the user adds around
them.

> Is m4 required if you don't use m4 footprint libraries?

No, but there's a bug in the newlib converter that needs to be fixed
for a non-m4 system to function as well as an m4 system, primarily
dealing with footprints with spaces in the macro names.


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