X-Recipient:	archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
DomainKey-Signature:	a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id
	:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post
	:list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date
	:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type
	:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=wGurFXmKB1SyTD6K
	XHFFHtX1mAKximDXjbR719TaAFWCXZA6E8HHFugR1SqrDfwQ3u53ks2SWTdApH2V
	jkjM1lWKdDO3xFHkRJgnF8wWD8Mc3fX+Uej63tg/Cwk1hStYzhUeWTQ1ibCqGdJk
	O5SJiZOSqpwa6cnmvhSRKJwmWSs=
DKIM-Signature:	v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id
	:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post
	:list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date
	:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type
	:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=7bQAK6jfw9FXFKG3mt+32i
	1xwmI=; b=dWaI8Zf2OBlKSUJzuz4IlcllneFHK/d2KMTxG5HDu015egTnJOZg0o
	QCQtJ/lrfwt9uhMZR63XDHNHUJjyXa0d7HW4WZnEC9Aq/qPp9dsppvQ7EayiY8mh
	mwJm2SURmHbYTz51GWst8v5hF4h47CtCIGMhkBjz0ZwnQag/+ugHU=
Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id:	<cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Authentication-Results:	sourceware.org; auth=none
X-Virus-Found:	No
X-Spam-SWARE-Status:	No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Lloyd, sk:lloydw, lloydwoodyahoocouk, sk:lloyd.w
X-HELO:	mail-wm0-f41.google.com
X-Google-DKIM-Signature:	v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=r5YFC65yCJnzOMNxsimw5clFLyn2yaiz60LTzP8M85U=; b=VHiyXwpH0bAGAu7Hp14ySBe84pn8QO3JGhxmpcDd2x0hGH6g+3RXa5e49gEMqM56fM e8dRg9/F7ITzup7K3+VPc/Z6V6xZR5aNFCZFTUy4w5ZeyvgcSxBW53cyeNij8j5hkB7w 8OFyUQoWHxdMczim60nNJUJX0rBknp4z7HGEOxFfQllGpA+XHZ6ksRliFw+WVq+P8S7e XL5fHVts535jL1wQPg2F0msPaBrZ+4CPa3x96B2cwfmMSWFcJtfAD7SPhdpaTHODneit GbY6QDVFGSzQo/uoc185mF1DdCij3MeiiLvu4tNbXCLcikmos72bf4T4TW6LjakG0Zl+ vklA==
X-Gm-Message-State:	AE9vXwPkkPUvsz5Py6C4RhKaL4iJv/PhANRp2+6ctvaRXKNp6dV/2IJIQDEdF7gJ9oCcqQ==
X-Received:	by 10.195.12.163 with SMTP id er3mr4221979wjd.49.1472571784607; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 08:43:04 -0700 (PDT)
Subject:	Re: Windows Subsystem For Linux
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References:	<1454779106 DOT 2980080 DOT 1472543049625 DOT ref AT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> <1454779106 DOT 2980080 DOT 1472543049625 AT mail DOT yahoo DOT com>
From:	Marco Atzeri <marco DOT atzeri AT gmail DOT com>
Message-ID:	<9eee718d-1fb9-3091-48f2-bc7764d88f4d@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:42:56 +0200
User-Agent:	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0
MIME-Version:	1.0
In-Reply-To:	<1454779106.2980080.1472543049625@mail.yahoo.com>
X-IsSubscribed:	yes

On 30/08/2016 09:44, lloyd DOT wood AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk wrote:
> A viewpoint on this whole Windows Ubuntu Frankenstein hybrid vs Cygwin thing:
>
> In comparison with the difficulties trying to build Geomview under 64-bit Cygwin,
> then discovering the piping issues that prevent it working with modules, using
> the Windows Ubuntu subsystem to install pre-existing Ubuntu packages and dependencies
> turned out to be surprisingly straightforward and user friendly.
>
> Compare the instructions on:
> http://personal.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/software/SaVi/building-under-Windows/
>
> and you can see why the complex build-on-Cygwin instructions are now listed last. (I also had
> no problem pulling in gcc and tk-dev and building SaVi from source. Haven't yet tried with
> Geomview!)
>
> I think Cygwin's Xming will soon be the most popular Cygwin spinoff, filling the same
> free Xserver role that XQuartz does on Mac OS X now that no longer ships an Xserver
> with the OS, and I think we're all going to be very grateful that Xming exists.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xming
>
>
> Lloyd Wood
> http://savi.sf.net/
>

I will not use your experience on geomview / savi as standard reference 
of effort for porting software to cygwin.

Last June I had little problem to built geomview-1.95 from source.
It was almost vanilla effort with minimal patch.

Savi needed a bit more of effort but it was mainly due to the old
style of building method and the peculiar startup script.

I doubt the communication issue between the 2 packages on 64 bit
are really due to "piping issues", I suspect more a wrong assumptions
in the chain and I will not bet on tcl/tk correctness.

My effort and the cyport files are located here:
http://matzeri.altervista.org/x86_64/index.html

feel free to reuse it.

Regards
Marco


--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

- Raw text -