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From: Marco Atzeri <marco DOT atzeri AT gmail DOT com>
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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:42:56 +0200
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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


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