[Xastir] Another way to run XASTIR under Windows

[William McKeehan]

This worked well for me.

I'm normally a cygwin user on my laptop and I've been unhappy with it
recently. VMWare requires too much resources for me, but this seems as small
(or smaller?) as cygwin and performance is significantly better.

The only issue I had was when I issued the first apt-get install command, I
had problems fetching sources. I updated the /etc/resolv.conf file to have DNS
servers in it that I use on my other boxes and things went smoothly from
there.

FYI, I mounted my "C:" drive as /mnt/c and used a symbolic link from
/usr/local/share/xastir to /mnt/c/cygwin/usr/local/share/xastir and everything
seems to be working great.

One other little note - cygwin will not work for me now...I'm not sure if I care.

Thanks for the work and documentation!
-- 
William McKeehan
KI4HDU

On Thu, September 27, 2007 1:04 am, Lee Bengston wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I tried andLinux tonight.   It appears to be a great alternative to Cygwin
> and VMware -
> particularly for machines that have resource limitations that preclude using
> VMware.
> The andLinux page is at the link below:
>
> http://wiki.gp2x.org/wiki/AndLinux
>
> I was able to install andLinux under Windows and compile XASTIR
> 1.91relatively easily.  AndLinux
> is based on Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy), so it takes advantage of the applicable
> repositories.
>
> Anyone who is happy with the binary version can install andLInux and grab
> the
> XASTIR binary via the Synaptic package manager in record time.
>
> And to answer the question "Can you add it to the Wiki?". Done. It's in the
> list of HowTo's below.
>
> http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo%27s
>
> The direct link is
> http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:Windows_andLinux
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Lee - K5DAT
> Murphy, TX
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