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From: Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
To: Peter Clifton <petercjclifton AT googlemail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Windows builds (gEDA/gaf and Lepton)?
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Hi Peter,

On Fri, 27 Sep 2019, Peter Clifton (petercjclifton AT googlemail DOT com) [via 
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> I would like to update our tools to a more recent build of gEDA or 
> Lepton, and was wondering whether anyone knew the build-ability of 
> either at the moment?
> 
> Last I recall, I had stopped updating my windows builds of gEDA due to 
> difficulties with guile. I presume this may still be an issue, 
> potentially with other new dependencies in the current gnetlist.

cross-compilation fails due to Guile and is unlikely to work again unless 
gEDA/gaf will at some point allow building without Guile.  Since Windows 
builds are often requested by users, this would be the logical thing to 
do, but it's not practical for this release.

Building under Cygwin should be possible.  I think the instructions by 
Mario Giovinazzo should apply without much modifications.  Here's a 
version of the build script with the library names replaced:

   https://gist.github.com/rlutz/d7eea5e0e528aa642c97d263b77d7cc9

I'd be interested to learn if you succeed compiling gEDA/gaf this way.

Roland