On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:52 +0000, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:45:56 +0000, Peter Clifton wrote: > > > It works on Windows! The real grief is building or sourcing all > > the prerequisites and tying it together with an installer. > > How about cross compiling? Do the compile on a Linux machine, where all > the ingredients are readily available. A little web search yielded some > HOWTOs that suggest to use a MinGW cross compiler.
That's how I've build windows versions in the past for testing. It works fairly well, but there are usually some hickups. You have to hack guile's configure.ac for example. I think Cesar uses MSYS, but might be wrong. > http://www.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/cross-gtk/ > and > http://silmor.de/39 Thanks for the links. > As for the installer, in july 2006 Peter Brett volunteer on this mailing > list to produce a NSIS-based Windows installation program: > http://www.seul.org/pipermail/geda-dev/2006-July/000340.html > > Seems like the subject has been on the list more than once. Last year > Peter clifton reported success with pcb and partial success with gEDA: > http://archives.seul.org/geda/dev/May-2007/msg00248.html > Would it be possible to use these efforts as a starting point? We could probably put together a build script like Dan's for PCB and gerbv. These are designed to run under MSYS IIRC. The reason I didn't go this way was simply the lack of a windows machine. For some reason, cairo versions of GTK don't render fonts correctly under Wine, something to do with dpi scaling. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
