I wrote:

> > In my opinion, for the effort you spend to get the cygnus stuff running
> > under windows you would be better off spending it installing Linux.


On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Byron A Jeff wrote:
>
> Now that's fascinating Scott. I hear that all the time the other way around.
> The effort you'll spend getting it to work under Linux, you may was well
> install Windows.
>
> Just kinda funny to see the tables turned.
>

Let me clarify,

If someone were willing to get gpsim running under windows, then I believe
it would then be possible to create an executable that could be
distributed without needing the full cygwin distribution. As I understand
it (but have not verified), it's possible to install a few cygnus .dll's
and you'd be up and running. Clean and simple.

OTOH, to create the gpsim executable you'd need a whole lot of stuff
that's not part of the standard cygnus distribution. For example, gtk ,
the api upon which gpsim's gui is based, is not part of the distribution.
Neither are ORBit or gnome or pthreads - all of which may be used in the
very near future. The effort to get these packages working under cygwin is
not all trivial (for example there are other package dependies for these
packages as well). IMO, it'd be easier to buy a new hardisk or repartition
your existing one and just install a fresh copy of Linux. Then all of the
packages you need are already there. Clean but perhaps not too simple.

Scott