gEDA: Re: gEDA on Windows

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda-at-NOSPAMseul_dot_org>]

Hi,


>I tried to compile it the other day  under cygwin and didn't get very far.  I 
>can't find an FAQ on this, are there any resources I should look at?  Alternat
>ively, could I get assistance from those (few?) who have successfully managed 
>it?
>

	With all this recent excitement about a win32 port, I have gone
back and looked at the docs I wrote (unreleased) a long time ago on how
to do this.  I'm updating them and the code so that the build process works
better (less manual hacking).  I don't think I'll finish tonight since
I'm building in vmware and using cygwin which isn't the fastest combination.
I will warn you though, it won't be a "make in the park", it will require
some hacking here and there, but it should be fairly painless, given that
my instructions are step-by-step like.

	About this particular port, it uses the win32 gtk+ port which
does not require an X server to run (ie native).  I do have to link against
cygwin.  Contrast this to the win32 port by Eduard which does require X11. 
I never tried going down that path, but apparently it works too! :-)
There are quirks with my port, but maybe I'll fix some of them tonight
seeing that I'm going to try something different (ummm follow the hints
suggested by the gtk+/win32 port author :-).

								-Ales


(bug me in a few days if you don't here about this again. Thanks)