As long as you are running Windows 2000 or XP and don't want ImageMagic support, you may get it to work. Windows 9x support is in the process of being removed and they've already removed some of the support for ImageMagic from the Xorg files but didn't release an updated ImageMagic package to match. On top of that, their X Windows maintainer has left so who knows when or if things will get fixed.
A review of the online archives of the cygwin mailing lists on cygwin.org basically shows a project in transition and nothing is being fixed right now. The other issue is that the latest versions of Cygwin need a really fast CPU since something changed and it is now a 100% cpu hog. Using the PREV button in setup to drop everything back one revision level sorta works, does fix the cpu issue, but means that you aren't running the latest versions of stuff.. At this point I have been able to get Xastir to compile but not actually launch on the latest files. There is no error, just the shell prompt returns after some time and nothing else happens other than the cpu load drops just a little. Once I find some ATU's, I'm going to try to see how to compile under DammSmallLinux (DSL) since it has a version that runs under Windows. But that would be even more cpu and memory intensive so that probably isn't a good answer. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark White Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 3:35 PM To: xastir@xastir.org Subject: Re: [Xastir] What's the state of Cygwin these days? Tom Russo wrote: > Some time ago, there was a post here that users should hold off > updating Cygwin, because some big change in the Cygwin packages broke > a lot of ports. I haven't updated Cygwin since and am unwilling to be > the guinea pig (my windows laptop is one I use on search missions, I'm > not gonna experiment on it). > > Has anyone here updated Cygwin lately, and does Xastir still compile > and link properly? > > If xastir does not *NOT* build properly on a current Cygwin, what type > of > problem is it that is showing up? > > Version 1.8.2 compiled on my laptop over a fresh install of Cygwin approx. 6 weeks ago. I used lesstiff from the Cygwin archives rather than OpenMotif though. 73 de ke4qkt Mark _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir