README.Cygwin

gEDA / gaf - Cygwin

GPL'd Suite of Electronic Design Automation tools

This readme 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...).

Instructions: 

1) Download and run setup.exe from cygwin website:
http://www.cygwin.com
In the setup program, select the following packages:
(Hint: press the "view" button once to arrange the list in
alphabetical order)

atk-devel
file
gcc
gtk2-x11-devel
guile-devel
make
pango-devel
patchutils
pcre-devel
pcre-doc
pkg-config
xorg-x11-devel
xorg-x11-fscl
xterm

2) Append these lines to your .bash_profile:

# ---- Cut here ---- #
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
# ---- Cut here ---- #

$ source .bash_profile

3) Go to the gEDA sources page:
http://www.geda.seul.org/sources.html
From the gEDA/gaf group, download *only* the packages which have a date
as its version (like 20060123). The necessary dependencies where already
installed in step 1.

4) Go to the download directory and type:
$ make install
( ...patience... )

5) Now, to properly view the documentation from the help menu of gschem:

Locate the executables of your browser and PDF reader and create links
from /usr/bin. Examples:
$ ln -s "c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" /usr/bin/iexplore
$ ln -s "c:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" /usr/bin/acroread

Try:
$ iexplore
( Microsoft Internet Explorer appears )
$ acroread
( Adobe Acrobat Reader appears )
$ gschemdoc -m
( gEDA/gaf documentation appears )

6) Finally, before running gschem:
$ startx

Have fun!