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/ -- 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
