[Xastir] Cygwin problems

[Tom Russo]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 04:27:08PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <scott at opentrac.org> flavor, containing:
> Forgive me if this has already been covered, but I've been off the list for
> awhile.  I tried installing Xastir for the first time under Cygwin (always
> run under Linux before) and ran into a problem.  Turns out it was caused by
> some DLLs missing from Cygwin/X.  There's a post about it here:
> 
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.xfree/16493

This has been covered before, and should probably be added to README.win32.

There are three approaches: 
  1) find the missing DLLS and install them
  2) "downgrade" X11 do a version that had them
  3) build ImageMagick from source so it doesn't require those DLLs.

The problem is that X.org dropped support for Display PostScript, and the
ImageMagick build available through Cygwin still tried to link that in.

The maintainer of the ImageMagick package no longer has time to update it,
and so the incompatibility remains.

> So now I'm up and running, but with an ancient version.  Is there a current
> Windows binary somewhere, or do I have to install the entire development
> environment and build it myself?

Yes, you have to build it yourself with a full development environment.
Everything you need to do is detailed in README.win32 (or equivalently
through the Xastir wiki (www.xastir.org, "Xastir Documentation" link) under
"HowTo: Windows").  Since you've already dealt with the ImageMagick problem,
everything else that README.win32 tells you to do should be spot on.  Just
start from step 1, and fill in the few missing packages you'll have to 
download.

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