Mail Archives: geda-user/2014/04/03/20:20:19
Jason White wrote:
> That prompts the question for me, what was the last version any of
> the gEDA tools to be built on windows? I saw another topic doing on
> it, so presumably its possible.
>
I host a windows installer for the geda suite at:
http://bibo.iqo.uni-hannover.de/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=english:geda_for_ms-windows
The windows binaries provide almost the same user experience as the
linux version. There are two major exceptions:
* pcb is not using OpenGL
* output to a printer does not work. You can produce PDFs, though
Note, this was done by a PHD student for our local consumption. For
this reason, it optionally includes our local library of symbol and
footprints. (that is, my library). The installer uses binaries that
were compiled by a cross compile build script on DJ's server.
Unfortunately, I could not make a similar script work at my place.
Even more unfortunately, DJ's script seized to work about a year ago,
too. The recent thread you saw started with Peter Brett reporting
success with patching the build script to work again. Francesc Vila
and independently I tried the patched cross compile script. However,
we both ran into errors on compile of guile. This is not technically
part of the geda suite. But it is needed by gaf.
To recap: Yes there is a native windows version of the tools in
the geda suite. But the build process is tedious and currently
broken.
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