On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 23:19 +0000, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:48:43 -0400, Ales Hvezda wrote: > > > [snip] > >> * gschem: Peter Clifton reported success for a crosscompile with > >> Mingw32 after some tweaking. > > > > I built (read: hacked up) gschem for w32 and experienced the following > > issues: > > Did you cross compile on a linux box. Or did you compile in a cygwin > environment?
> > 1) it does _not_ really build without some unpleasant hacks and, > > Can you be a bit more specific? What did the hacks involve? For a start, look at the commits on Cesar's git repository (wip branch): http://repo.or.cz/w/geda-gaf/cesar.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/mingw/wip IIRC, the pu branch this was based on has been merged. (Although I can't remember for certain). Running the finished product may require some environment variables to be setup, I can't recall the full details, although GUILE rings a bell, as does GEDA{RC,DATA}DIR or something like. > > 2) there are some unacceptable performance issues. For example: try > > dragging (move/copy/place) a _simple_ component around; it will be > > extremely choppy and consume 100% of the CPU. > > Do you think this is some kind of GTK/gdk issue? It could even be the same issues we faced with composited desktops, and "might" be improved with the last release. Ales: Did you try this with a later gEDA version (e.g. 1.4.0)? Best wishes, -- 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
