Peter Clifton wrote: > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 23:26 +0000, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > >> Doing a windows port is a lot more demanding than a package for some >> Linux Distro. Geda and friends are native to linux like systems. A >> windows version would be a port rather than a package. > > True, but the code actually builds with mingw (at least with Cesar's > patches). It works on Windows! The real grief is building or sourcing > all the prerequisites and tying it together with an installer. >
It's been a while since I built gEDA on Windows, but I do intend to resume work after I get some free time back. I will not use the port myself, being a happy Ubuntu user, but I have a few co-workers that will never get to try gEDA if it isn't available on Windows as a self-extracting stand-alone binary installer. Regarding library dependencies, I am working on a script-based tool which, given a set of simple recipes, will download, patch, (cross-)compile, pack and install free software libraries and its dependencies. Hopefully this tool, together with a repository of MinGW-oriented recipes, will make it easier to (cross-)compile gEDA for MinGW. Regards, Cesar _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
