Hello, I am using the geometry-software "kseg" (www.mit.edu/~ibaran) at school, where it is installed on a solaris-system.
Unfortunately, most of my students do not have linux on their computer at home, only windows. So I tried to compile kseg on cygwin, and it worked fine (for those interested, see below). Now the problem is, that the installation-process is not so easy for people who are used to self-starting installation-cds only (which is the case for most pupils, I am sorry to say). So my questions are: - is it possible to install cygwin/xfree on CD-rom and run it from CD-rom without installing it? (I guess not, probably some directorys must be writable) - is it possible just to copy a whole cygwin-installation to CD-rom and copy it back to a local directory on a different computer? Of course, I have already tried so, and it did not work (startxwin.bat started, it ended with "could not connect to x-server..."), but maybe the only problem with this was, that I have installed cygwin on Drive E, while most people will copy it back to Drive C - if all this is not possible, is there anybody out there who has written a nice installation-skript that installs xfree after cygwin is installed (this should not be too difficult for the average pupil) and can be edited to install some software too? If not, I will probably try to write one myself, but of course I�m not interested in reinventing the wheel... Best regards, Andreas For those interested, steps nessecary to install kseg on cygwin/xfree: - Install cygwin as described in manual, don�t forget libjpg, libpng, gcc and make - Install xfree as described in manual - Install qt 2.? from kde on cygwin-project as described in readme - edit profile (or whatever you use to configure your environment) and extend path to qt-binary directory and (this is not described in readme) set QTDIR (for instance QTDIR = /usr/local/lib/qt2, export QTDIR) - extending LD_LIBRARY_PATH seems not to be necessary, as QT-dlls are in the QT-bin-directory - download and extract kseg, edit makefile and replace gcc with g++ - type make, It should compile - If you want, you can copy the binary "kseg" to a directory in your path
