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  17 <h1 class="sectionedit1" id="installing_geda_gaf_on_windows_-_the_cygwin_way">Installing gEDA/gaf on Windows - the Cygwin way</h1>
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  20 <p>
  21 This guide describes one way to build gEDA/gaf (gschem and friends) on
  22 the Windows operating system. It uses Cygwin as the layer between
  23 Windows and the *nix world (ie gcc, make, bash etc…).
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  28 <h2 class="sectionedit2" id="instructions">Instructions</h2>
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  30
  31 <p>
  32 <strong>1. Download and run setup.exe from cygwin website:</strong>
  33 <a href="http://www.cygwin.com" class="urlextern" title="http://www.cygwin.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.cygwin.com</a>.
  34 </p>
  35
  36 <p>
  37 In the package selection dialog, select the following packages:
  38 </p>
  39
  40 <p>
  41 (Hint: press the “view” button once to arrange the list in
  42 alphabetical order)
  43 </p>
  44 <pre class="code">atk-devel
  45 crypt
  46 file
  47 gcc
  48 gtk2-x11-devel
  49 guile-devel
  50 libgmp-devel
  51 libtool1.5
  52 make
  53 pango-devel
  54 patchutils
  55 pcre-devel
  56 pcre-doc
  57 pkg-config
  58 xorg-x11-devel
  59 xorg-x11-fscl
  60 xterm</pre>
  61
  62 <p>
  63 <strong>2. Append these lines to your .bash_profile:</strong>
  64 </p>
  65 <pre class="code">export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/geda/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  66 export PATH=$HOME/geda/bin:$PATH
  67 export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/geda/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH</pre>
  68
  69 <p>
  70 Update your environment:
  71 </p>
  72 <pre class="code">$ source .bash_profile</pre>
  73
  74 <p>
  75 <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>
  76 </p>
  77
  78 <p>
  79 From the gEDA/gaf group, download <strong>only</strong> the packages which have a date
  80 as its version. The necessary dependencies were already
  81 installed in step 1. However, if you haven&#039;t installed or built the libstroke package, be sure to add
  82 </p>
  83 <pre class="code">--disable-stroke</pre>
  84
  85 <p>
  86 to the opts= line. Add the following options to the opts= line in the Makefile
  87 </p>
  88 <pre class="code">--disable-update-mime-database --disable-update-desktop-database --disable-nls</pre>
  89
  90 <p>
  91 <strong>4. Go to the download directory and type:</strong>
  92 </p>
  93 <pre class="code">$ make open
  94 $ make install
  95 ( ...patience... )</pre>
  96
  97 <p>
  98 <strong>5. Now, to properly view the documentation from the help menu of gschem:</strong>
  99 </p>
 100
 101 <p>
 102 Locate the executables of your browser and PDF reader and create links
 103 from /usr/bin. Examples:
 104 </p>
 105 <pre class="code">$ ln -s &quot;c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe&quot; /usr/bin/iexplore
 106 $ ln -s &quot;c:\Program Files\Firefox\firefox.exe&quot; /usr/bin/firefox
 107 $ ln -s &quot;c:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe&quot; /usr/bin/acroread</pre>
 108
 109 <p>
 110 Try:
 111 </p>
 112 <pre class="code">$ iexplore
 113 ( Microsoft Internet Explorer appears )
 114 $ firefox
 115 ( Firefox appears - if installed )
 116 $ acroread
 117 ( Adobe Acrobat Reader appears )
 118 $ gschemdoc -m
 119 ( gEDA documentation appears )</pre>
 120
 121 <p>
 122 <strong>6. Finally, start the X server:</strong>
 123 </p>
 124 <pre class="code">$ startx</pre>
 125
 126 <p>
 127 Have fun!
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