[Xastir] Cygwin problems

[Gerry Creager]

One of the partners I'm working with on an ocean observing/prediction 
project is distributing VMPlater VMs on a multisite/many times a day 
basis.  Don't think that's going to be a valid concern.  I'll ask the 
VMWare folk at SC about the likelyhood this stuff will stay free.  I 
suspect the answer is, "Yes, it will".  Their business model is in the 
hiperf server versions they sell and support.

gerry

Jason Winningham wrote:
> 
> On Nov 7, 2006, at 8:47 PM, David Flood wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> I wasn't really thinking of eliminating the cygwin install, more install 
> the base cygwin/X11 bundle as usual, then have a simple executable 
> install of xastir.
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Actually, all you need for a VM are the binaries and basic config 
> files.  The development can be done elsewhere.  One should be able to 
> put together a reasonable VM for VMWare Player that doesn't have a 
> complete development environment.  This also assumes that VMWare doesn't 
> care if someone distributes VMPlayer virtual machines.
> 
> Assuming that VMWare continues to offer this product for free (big 
> assumption!) this may be better than running under cygwin.  I've been 
> playing with cygwin a bit lately and it seems a bit sluggish.  A VMWare 
> VM may actually improve performance.
> 
> The gotcha with using a VM is sharing the hardware with the host OS, 
> specifically COM ports, so that xastir can talk to TNCs and GPSs.
> 
> -Jason
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> 
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