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

[David Flood]

As long as you are running Windows 2000 or XP and don't want ImageMagic
support, you may get it to work.  Windows 9x support is in the process of
being removed and they've already removed some of the support for ImageMagic
from the Xorg files but didn't release an updated ImageMagic package to
match.  On top of that, their X Windows maintainer has left so who knows
when or if things will get fixed.

A review of the online archives of the cygwin mailing lists on cygwin.org
basically shows a project in transition and nothing is being fixed right
now.

The other issue is that the latest versions of Cygwin need a really fast CPU
since something changed and it is now a 100% cpu hog.  Using the PREV button
in setup to drop everything back one revision level sorta works, does fix
the cpu issue, but means that you aren't running the latest versions of
stuff..

At this point I have been able to get Xastir to compile but not actually
launch on the latest files.  There is no error, just the shell prompt
returns after some time and nothing else happens other than the cpu load
drops just a little.

Once I find some ATU's, I'm going to try to see how to compile under
DammSmallLinux (DSL) since it has a version that runs under Windows.  But
that would be even more cpu and memory intensive so that probably isn't a
good answer.

-----Original Message-----
From: xastir-bounces at xastir.org [mailto:xastir-bounces at xastir.org] On Behalf
Of Mark White
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 3:35 PM
To: xastir at xastir.org
Subject: Re: [Xastir] What's the state of Cygwin these days?


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.

73 de ke4qkt
Mark
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