[Xastir] Xastir with festival on cygwin!

[Tom Russo]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 10:46:55PM +0200, a Mr. Richard Feyler of Fort Lee, New Jersey <henk.de.groot at hetnet.nl> writes 'Dear Rosanne Rosannadanna':
> Hello Tom,
> 
> Great news!
> 
> At 12:29 28-8-2004 -0600, Tom Russo wrote:
> >I've been evangelizing xastir to a friend who will be stuck on a losedows
> >machine, and after getting him started on his cygwin install, I decided to
> >look into getting festival running.
> 
> The instruction you posted seems to be targeted at also using Festival
> outside the Cygwin environment. When you however stay within the Cygwin
> environment the hassle with mounting is not needed and Festival can be
> build as if it is yet another Linux system.
> 
> Here are the modified instructions:

Great stuff.  Good to know that there's one more thing that cygwinified xastir
can do, with a few less steps.

Now, if only windows wasn't such a pig with cygwin -- the friend I've been
evangelizing to can't build xastir on his 400MHz machine with 128MB ram, it
gets hung up in linking (he said he waited twelve hours and it got nowhere!).
Guess I have to switch to evangelizing a real OS first... 

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