[Xastir] Cygwin problems

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 08:09:28AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <scott at opentrac.org> flavor, containing:
> I'm a big fan of Xastir, but I have to say I was disappointed with the Win32
> install.  All of the links to the README.win32 that I could find are broken
> (pointing to the old Sourceforge CVS server), and even when I found the Wiki
> there was no mention made of a known problem that keeps the latest Cygwin
> from working.  

I have just added to the wiki the same verbiage I just added to README.win32 
last night.  That includes links to the work-around for ImageMagick.

I've also added a correct link to the always-current, correct sourceforge
CVS file to the HowTo: Windows page.  That might help.

> And of course, the latest binary is way out of date.
> 
> Would it really be that difficult for someone with the build environment
> already set up to just rebuild the executable every time a stable release
> comes out?  

Apparently.

AFAIK, the cygwin binary that's out there was the result of one person 
volunteering to do just that, and clearly that person either ran out of time 
to do it or lost interest, or whatever.  I'm sure nobody would  object if
someone else wanted to take up the flag, but there seems to  be little interest
except from those  who would benefit from the service.

Excepting the ImageMagick issue, the README.win32 instructions for building
xastir are the clearest and most complete  step-by-step instructions we have
for any platform.  We've had more complaints about the clarity of install 
instructions for Linux than we ever have for cygwin.

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Curt, WE7U [mailto:archer at eskimo.com] 
> > Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 7:02 AM
> > To: Tom Russo
> > Cc: scott at opentrac.org; xastir at xastir.org
> > Subject: Re: [Xastir] Cygwin problems
> > 
> > On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Tom Russo wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Because it's been a while since it was discussed, and I don't run
> > Cygwin myself, I TOTALLY FORGOT about this issue.  Definitely these
> > sorts of things need to go into some documentation when they occur.
> > Thanks for doing that Tom!
> > 
> > --
> > Curt, WE7U.   APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
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> > 
> > 
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