Greetings, lloyd.w...@yahoo.co.uk! > 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 Now try to pipe something from a native application to your UFW build, and then the results from it to something else native. I'm eagerly awaiting reports of your success. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Tuesday, August 30, 2016 23:43:58 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
