From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28443 invoked by alias); 30 Aug 2016 15:43:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 28429 invoked by uid 89); 30 Aug 2016 15:43:17 -0000 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 Received: from mail-wm0-f41.google.com (HELO mail-wm0-f41.google.com) (74.125.82.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 15:43:07 +0000 Received: by mail-wm0-f41.google.com with SMTP id o80so42930490wme.1 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 08:43:06 -0700 (PDT) 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) Received: from [172.21.188.226] ([62.154.173.198]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id a9sm40132881wjf.16.2016.08.30.08.43.03 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 30 Aug 2016 08:43:03 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Windows Subsystem For Linux To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1454779106.2980080.1472543049625.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1454779106.2980080.1472543049625@mail.yahoo.com> From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: <9eee718d-1fb9-3091-48f2-bc7764d88f4d@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:45:00 -0000 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-08/txt/msg00606.txt.bz2 On 30/08/2016 09:44, lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.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