[Xastir] What's the state of Cygwin these days?

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 06:35:21PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <jmarkw at ec.rr.com> flavor, containing:
> Tom Russo wrote:
> >Some time ago, there was a post here that users should hold off updating
> >Cygwin, because some big change in the Cygwin packages broke a lot of 
> >ports.
> >I haven't updated Cygwin since and am unwilling to be the guinea pig (my 
> >windows laptop is one I use on search missions, I'm not gonna experiment
> >on it).
> >
> >Has anyone here updated Cygwin lately, and does Xastir still compile and 
> >link
> >properly?
> >
> >If xastir does not *NOT* build properly on a current Cygwin, what type of 
> >problem is it that is showing up?
> >
> >  
> Version 1.8.2 compiled on my laptop over a fresh install of Cygwin 
> approx. 6 weeks ago.  I used lesstiff from the Cygwin archives rather 
> than OpenMotif though.

After doing a little of the "STFW" thing, I refamiliarized myself with what
the issue was --- the problem is that X.org dropped support for Display 
PostScript, and ImageMagick was built to use it.  The result is that 
the ImageMagick package in cygwin is currently busted, unless you find
three old DLLs that it requires.  As far as I can tell, the ImageMagick
package has not yet been rebuilt, as the maintainer of that package has
announced he no longer has time to maintain it.  The most recent message I've
seen about the matter was from the end of August, and it does not appear that
any new maintainer has stepped up to the plate.

So since you say you built xastir, I'm guessing you did not include
ImageMagick support.  Is that right?  If you *did* build it with ImageMagick,
does ImageMagick actually work? (i.e. can you use web-based maps?)

>From the sound of it so far, there are two choices: 1) build ImageMagick
from source on cygwin with the "--with-dps=no" (or some such option) or
(b) find and install the three old DLLs that will temporarily continue to let
ImageMagick think it has access to display postscript, or (5), just continue
to not upgrade cygwin.  I think I'll take that third one for a while longer.

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