Re: gEDA: building under cygwin

[Dan McMahill <dan-at-NOSPAMmcmahill_dot_net>]

Stuart Brorson wrote:
> Actually, Cygwin was probably a good idea about 10 years ago.
> However, nowadays you can throw Linux on any garden variety PC, so why
> bother to fool around with Cygwin?
> 

I have to disagree with that.  There are plenty of people for whom the 
use of windows is mandated and cygwin is a good way to get some useful 
utilities and have a programming shell.  Also many people simply may not 
have a computer laying around thats not total garbage that they'd care 
to essentially donate to their employer.  And, as hard as it is to 
believe in this day and age, some of us (myself included) don't own 
notebooks that can easily be carried to and from work.


With regards to Larrie's question/comment, I could easily believe that 
gEDA either just works or could work with minor tweaks under cygwin.  If 
you want it to work as a native win32 app (not needing cygwin), you may 
have to work harder to get, for example guile, to work.  I think its 
really a question of no one has cared enough to step up and send in a 
set of patches to address whatever minor issues there may be.

BTW, what I did for the native windows version of wcalc is I downloaded 
all the developer files and run time files for gtk2 for windows, and 
added the following to my configure.in:


case $host in
         *-*-cygwin* )
                 WIN32=yes
                 CFLAGS="$CFLAGS ${CYGWIN_CFLAGS:--mms-bitfields 
-mno-cygwin -mwindows}"
                 CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS ${CYGWIN_CPPFLAGS:--mms-bitfields 
-mno-cygwin -mwindows}"
                 ;;

         *-*-mingw* )
                 WIN32=yes
                 CFLAGS="$CFLAGS ${MINGW_CFLAGS:--mms-bitfields -mwindows}"
                 CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS ${MINGW_CPPFLAGS:--mms-bitfields 
-mwindows}"
                 ;;

         * )
                 WIN32=no
esac

After that everything pretty much just worked.


-Dan