I wish we (me included) could be more helpful to people trying to build our stuff on windows.
Maybe something for the code sprint? From: Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: PCB Layout Designers Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Date: 29 May 2007 10:44:41 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com On May 27, 4:19 am, DJ Delorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Don't suppose you have some kind of link to this do you? > > "Pre-tested". He sent it directly to me. If you have mingw > installed, you can build it from the pcb sources - the scripts are > included. Please believe me, I am trying not to be a pain/stupid here...... I read around amongst the readme's for gEDA PCB, downloaded cygwin/gtk +/NSIS installed them all and after some leaps of faith and guessing I managed to get the build going, but it bails out regarding the not being able to find a new enough version of gtk+ (wants greater the 2.4.0), but I downloaded and as far as I can make out from the instruction supplied the latest version. So having read this reply from you I downloaded mingw, well MSYS, which from the info at the top seemed the right thing to do. Great, its installed, it runs, as I expected it won't build as it stands because there is no way that a 3Mb exe is going to have enough in it. I guess I'm going to need all the gtk libraries again, and the pcg_config, which was also giving me a problem. Yes, you're right, I'm not a Linux user, I am however a programmer and more than proficient with computers. I tried the mailing list on gEDA site, anything on there about building on Windows is 95% full of people slating Windows and saying, well in my opinion, we'd rather shoot ourselves in the foot than allow Windows users to use gEDA. Please, is there someone out there who can give me a hand on building this? If I can get it built, I would even happily upload the finished NSIS for others and in fact if its as good as it looks I'll even keep a regular eye on gEDA releases and build each of the new ones and upload. Tom _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
