[Xastir] network cygwin install

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

64MB is a little light for serious X work.

gerry

Tyson S. wrote:
> I installed CYGWIN and full Xastir on a windows 98SE 200 Mhz 96 megs of
> RAM machine this weekend, it seemed to work ok, the computer has always
> given me trouble with freezing and crashing loooong before any Xastir,
> but after 4 or 5 reboots I could usually get Xastir to run all day
> long. I finally gave up on the stupid computer and ripped the hard
> drive out of it. I will probably run the rest of the computer over with
> the D6 Caterpillar we have at work. I have since installed the hard
> drive into a pentium 166 with 64 megs of RAM and although the operating
> system works great now, I can not get the Xwindows BASH thing to start
> so Xastir can be started.
> 
> --- Wes Johnston <wes at kd4rdb.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I picked xastir... didn't realize xastir min was there until I just
>>read this
>>email from you.  Sure enough it's there but marked as "skipped".
>>
>>Bill, I was so freaking excited when I tried this 2 months ago, and
>>fell on my
>>face today... bummer!
>>
>>Looks like now, at least xastir's not yelling at me for image magick
>>missing...
>>I went thru the xastir readme.w32 file and manually selected the
>>packages.
>>
>>Now it's simply telling me that "file format not supported by XPM
>>library:
>>Online/USRadar.geo" for example.
>>
>>Just heard from my "other half" hihi on the phone... kc4pl says that
>>his cygwin
>>CD (of his own making) which didn't work on the NWS PC _does_ work at
>>his
>>house.
>>
>>So it's looking like we have a couple of things going on here...
>>1)NWS win98 pc
>>acting weird, 2)my lintronixs install on winxp on my primary desktop
>>is funky,
>>3)I'm currently in the process of loading a 500mhz machine with win98
>>and will
>>probably do a manual cygwin /cvs install tonight just to verify that
>>it will
>>work with win98.
>>
>>Maybe I can narrow down some of these variables... for example if I
>>know it'll
>>work on win98, then I know I can isolate theproblem on the win98
>>machine at NWS
>>office.
>>
>>Wes
>>--
>>
>>
>>
>>Quoting Bill Vodall <wa7nwp at jnos.org>:
>>
>>
>>>>>Well, I got to checking, and found the following lib's not
>>
>>included in
>>
>>>the
>>>
>>>>>download.
>>>>>
>>>>>[ ] db4.2
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi Wes,
>>>
>>>Did you pick "xastir" or "xastir-min"?   I've been tuning things to
>>
>>develop a
>>
>>>minimal install.  Seems the original xastir should bring in
>>
>>everything but
>>
>>>some
>>>little glitch could certainly have snuck in.
>>>
>>>===
>>> requires: cygwin xastir gcc perl nano Xorg-x11-base Xorg-x11-devel
>>>Xorg-x11-f100 XFree86-lib-compat X-startup-scripts
>>>X-start-menu-icons Xorg-x11-libs-data autoconf automake cvs make
>>
>>lesstif
>>
>>>curl-devel libtiff-devel lcms
>>>===
>>>
>>>"xastir-min" is set to load:
>>>
>>>===
>>>requires: cygwin Xorg-x11-base Xorg-x11-f100 XFree86-lib-compat
>>>Xorg-x11-devel X-startup-scripts X-start-menu-icons
>>>Xorg-x11-libs-data lesstiff nano
>>>===
>>>
>>>Hmmm.  I don't think I've ever (yet) included Imagemagick. 
>>
>>Apparently it's
>>
>>>finally
>>>integrated enough we don't have to battle with making a special
>>
>>install of
>>
>>>the standalone
>>>library and I can start using it.
>>>
>>>The goal is to also add a third package for folks wanting to do
>>
>>full compiles
>>
>>>and development.  "xastir-devel".   I haven't been able to get a
>>
>>good clean
>>
>>>compile
>>>of everything yet so I haven't uploaded the archive.
>>>
>>>===
>>>requires: cygwin gcc perl vim Xorg-x11-base Xorg-x11-devel
>>
>>Xorg-x11-f100
>>
>>>XFree86-lib-compat X-startup-scripts
>>>X-start-menu-icons Xorg-x11-libs-data autoconf automake cvs make
>>
>>lesstif
>>
>>>curl-devel libtiff-devel lcm
>>>===
>>>
>>>73,
>>>Bill
>>>
>>>
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