Hi, > I managed to install PCB > http://pcb.sourceforge.net > on M$ Window$ successfully and simply. > > First I installed Cygwin and clicked up bunch of reasonable options > (X, gcc, GNU Make, and lots more)
Worked for me too, but my X choices were pretty random :) > > Then I downloaded the source from the PCB official webpage and did > ./configure --prefix=/usr > make > make install True, true. I experimented with Xaw3d, now can't get rid of it... > > Then I started Cygwin, typed "startx" (this started X Window System) with > another commandline shell, and then I just typed "pcb twister.pcb" and > could edit the PCB. Just like in tutorial. > > Does anyone has experience with PCB on Windows? Has anyone experienced > any problems during that? The only problems are with GUI: 1. the editing area (active project area) does not resize when I maximize main window. 2. some (most) menus are too short to display all contents. I hope that it is because of Xaw3d instead of Xaw, still trying to recofigure/recompile without --with-xaw=xaw3d, without success. > > It's a 800MHz notebook and it's rather slow (due to the CPU speed, > cygwin/Windows inefficiency and also I suspect PCB from being written > poorly froom speed point of view). Doing good on Celeron 2.53GHz. Peter
