[Xastir] Cygwin problems

[David Flood]

Jason Winningham wrote:
> On the subject of a precompiled xastir-cygwin binary, is there such a 
> thing as a static executable for cygwin?  I'm still thinking that would 
> be the easiest way to distribute binaries on any platform, if it could 
> be accomplished.

Unfortunately, due to their licensing terms, you can't just distribute 
the glue parts of Cygwin.  So it is impossible to make an EXE file and 
related DLL's and have them just work.

As an alternative to Cygwin, I've been playing with real systems under 
the VMWare player but have yet to find a distribution of Linux or BSD 
that is "lite" enough to have a small footprint but will still compile 
Xastir and related sub-programs.  So I guess that trying to work around 
the bugs in Cygwin is the only realistic option right now.

Dave
KD7MYC