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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:16:21 +0100
From: mhx AT iae DOT nl
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] How to compile geda on Windows, Cygwin64 or MSYS?
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On 2018-03-22 09:33, (graahnul DOT grom AT gmail DOT com) [via 
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 23:57:45 +0100
> mhx AT iae DOT nl wrote:
> 
>> Dear experts,
>> 
>> What is the best way to compile a current and up-to-date
>> gschem for Windows? I'm using a binary package from 2013
>> now, which works fine, but has small bugs (main window
>> positioned too near the top of the desktop, console window
>> that can't be turned off, opening text with EE does not
>> scroll the view, etc.)
>> 
>> When I try it to compile gschem, a bug in the makefile
>> declares my Python is too old (it is actually newer than
>> the make test expects). There are many warnings by gcc
>> that are caused by "improvements" in this compiler over
>> the last years. Finally it apparently fails to link to
>> some gtk library and I am really lost what to do.
>> 
>> -marcel
> 
> http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:cygwin
> https://github.com/lepton-eda/lepton-eda/wiki/Lepton-EDA-and-Cygwin
> 
> Dmitry

Thank you! However, both these links require to start an X server on 
Windows. The (old) solution I use now is Windows native?

-marcel