<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> <title></title> <link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" type="text/css" href="./style.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" type="text/css" href="./design.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" media="print" type="text/css" href="./print.css" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> </head> <body> <h1><a name="installing_geda_gaf_on_windows_-_the_cygwin_way" id="installing_geda_gaf_on_windows_-_the_cygwin_way">Installing gEDA/gaf on Windows - the Cygwin way</a></h1> <div class="level1"> <p> This guide describes one way to build gEDA/gaf (gschem and friends) on the Windows operating system. It uses Cygwin as the layer between Windows and the *nix world (ie gcc, make, bash etc…). </p> </div> <!-- SECTION "Installing gEDA/gaf on Windows - the Cygwin way" [1-258] --> <h2><a name="instructions" id="instructions">Instructions</a></h2> <div class="level2"> <p> <strong>1. Download and run setup.exe from cygwin website:</strong> <a href="http://www.cygwin.com" class="urlextern" title="http://www.cygwin.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.cygwin.com</a>. </p> <p> In the package selection dialog, select the following packages: </p> <p> (Hint: press the “view” button once to arrange the list in alphabetical order) </p> <pre class="code">atk-devel crypt file gcc gtk2-x11-devel guile-devel libgmp-devel libtool1.5 make pango-devel patchutils pcre-devel pcre-doc pkg-config xorg-x11-devel xorg-x11-fscl xterm</pre> <p> <strong>2. Append these lines to your .bash_profile:</strong> </p> <pre class="code">export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/geda/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export PATH=$HOME/geda/bin:$PATH export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/geda/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH</pre> <p> Update your environment: </p> <pre class="code">$ source .bash_profile</pre> <p> <strong>3. Go to the <a href="http://www.geda.seul.org/sources.html" class="urlextern" title="http://www.geda.seul.org/sources.html" rel="nofollow">gEDA sources download page</a>.</strong> </p> <p> From the gEDA/gaf group, download <strong>only</strong> the packages which have a date as its version. The necessary dependencies were already installed in step 1. However, if you haven’t installed or built the libstroke package, be sure to add </p> <pre class="code"> --disable-stroke </pre> <p> to the opts= line. Add the following options to the opts= line in the Makefile </p> <pre class="code"> --disable-update-mime-database --disable-update-desktop-database --disable-nls </pre> <p> <strong>4. Go to the download directory and type:</strong> </p> <pre class="code">$ make open $ make install ( ...patience... )</pre> <p> <strong>5. Now, to properly view the documentation from the help menu of gschem:</strong> </p> <p> Locate the executables of your browser and <acronym title="Portable Document Format">PDF</acronym> reader and create links from /usr/bin. Examples: </p> <pre class="code">$ ln -s "c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" /usr/bin/iexplore $ ln -s "c:\Program Files\Firefox\firefox.exe" /usr/bin/firefox $ ln -s "c:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" /usr/bin/acroread</pre> <p> Try: </p> <pre class="code">$ iexplore ( Microsoft Internet Explorer appears ) $ firefox ( Firefox appears - if installed ) $ acroread ( Adobe Acrobat Reader appears ) $ gschemdoc -m ( gEDA documentation appears )</pre> <p> <strong>6. Finally, start the X server:</strong> </p> <pre class="code">$ startx</pre> <p> Have fun! </p> </div> <!-- SECTION "Instructions" [259-] --></body> </html>
