Re: gEDA: building under cygwin

[David Cussans <David_dot_Cussans-at-NOSPAMbristol_dot_ac_dot_uk>]

I use vmware to run a install and use Windows on a virtual PC hosted on 
my Linux box. It can also run  Linux in a virtual machine hosted by 
Windows ( though I haven't tried this )

Recently VMWare have started to supply a free (as in beer, not as in 
speech) VMWare "player" that allows a virtual machine (prepared with a 
licenced copy of VMWare) to run on a PC ( either Linux or Windows ). See 
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/vm/ubuntu.html

The point of this, is that it looks like it would be possible to prepare 
a virtual Linux machine pre-loaded with the Geda tools that could be 
played with the VMWare player running on Windows.

Not satisfactory from the point of view of FLOSS philosophy, but it 
might save somebody some time.

I hasten to add that I haven't done this myself - I use Cadence Allegro 
on a Linux desktop for my day job - and why would anybody run Windows at 
home ;-)

       Cheers,
             David

Timmerman, Bert wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>FWIW: I'm being told that M$ Virtual PC 2004 is capable of emulating a HD (FD, CD an NIC) and that one can install a Linux distro.
>
>You can have a look at http://vpc.visualwin.com/.
>
>Not all *nix distro's are supported though.
>
>YMMV and haven't done that, haven't been there.
>
>Just my EUR 0.02
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Bert Timmerman.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-geda-dev@seul.org [mailto:owner-geda-dev@seul.org]On Behalf
>Of Larrie Carr
>Sent: zaterdag 4 februari 2006 19:17
>To: geda-dev@seul.org
>Subject: Re: gEDA: building under cygwin
>
>
>
>Not a test to see if everything was working - a test if guile is working 
>properly under cygwin (Alex's comment).
>
>I've run through about 3 test cases (examples on the network) and have found 
>the only hard to fix problem being the shifting libraries names and 
>footprints.
>
>gschem, gnetlist, gsymbols, gerbv and pcb all seem to be playing nice.  pcb 
>over tightvnc is a little rough, but I can live without that.
>
>Larrie.
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Dan McMahill" <dan@mcmahill.net>
>To: <geda-dev@seul.org>
>Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 2:55 AM
>Subject: Re: gEDA: building under cygwin
>
>
>  
>
>>Larrie Carr wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Can you suggest a quick definitive test?  The version of guile that I 
>>>tested came from the cygwin setup and appears to be functional out of the 
>>>box.
>>>
>>>While the mingw port would be the preferred route, it appears to require 
>>>a greater level of hacking skill.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Do you mean a definitive test to see if everything is working?
>>
>>What I'd do is run gschem to see if you can create a simple schematic. 
>>Then run gnetlist to see if you can netlist the design.  If those two 
>>things work, then that's most of it.
>>
>>There are a number of other utilities, but I wouldn't worry about testing 
>>each of them.  If gschem and gnetlist are working at all, then I think 
>>you're past the big (if any) hurdles.  Any other issues are likely to be 
>>small and relatively easy to fix.
>>
>>-Dan
>>
>>
>>    
>>


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