Dear all Is anyone aware of a Cygwin build for Geany? I've seen this issue pop-up once on the ml this year, without a clear outcome. The reason I would need a Cygwin build is that I would like to use Geany for R programming, that is make use of its embedded vte terminal. Perhaps there is another way to get a terminal in the Windows build of Geany? Other ideas?
Thank you Liviu
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 23:31:37 +0300 Liviu Andronic landronimirc@gmail.com wrote:
Is anyone aware of a Cygwin build for Geany? I've seen this issue pop-up once on the ml this year, without a clear outcome. The reason I would need a Cygwin build is that I would like to use Geany for R programming, that is make use of its embedded vte terminal. Perhaps there is another way to get a terminal in the Windows build of Geany? Other ideas?
I haven't heard of anyone getting VTE working with Geany on Windows. I don't know about Windows Cygwin builds either, we use MinGW.
It may be possible to build VTE on Windows, but Geany would probably require some small changes to work with it.
If anyone succeeds doing this, it would be great as others could probably download the VTE DLL.
Regards, Nick
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:03:59 +0100, Nick wrote:
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 23:31:37 +0300 Liviu Andronic landronimirc@gmail.com wrote:
Is anyone aware of a Cygwin build for Geany? I've seen this issue pop-up once on the ml this year, without a clear outcome. The reason
I compiled Geany in Cygwin once. According to the modification time of http://uvena.de/tmp/cygwin_xfce.png, this was in January 2007 :). I don't have the build environment anymore nor any idea how I did this. And also no idea whether Geany would still compile in Cygwin as the code changed a lot since early 2007. But it's probably worth a try if you want :).
I would need a Cygwin build is that I would like to use Geany for R programming, that is make use of its embedded vte terminal. Perhaps there is another way to get a terminal in the Windows build of Geany? Other ideas?
Nope, sorry.
I haven't heard of anyone getting VTE working with Geany on Windows. I don't know about Windows Cygwin builds either, we use MinGW.
It may be possible to build VTE on Windows, but Geany would probably require some small changes to work with it.
There is a bug report about porting VTE to Windows: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369310
Unfortunately, there wasn't much process lately.
Regards, Enrico
Hello Nick and Enrico Thanks a lot for the pointers. It would be indeed great if the VTE devels tidied up the bugzilla patch and merged it mainstream, but at this point it's probably wishful thinking.
In the end I abandoned the Cygwin approach (in part because it feels like configuring/using a broken Linux box inside Windows) and went for virtualization. To my surprise it works very smoothly. I installed the free to use VMware Player on my Windows 7, and inside the Virtual Machine I installed Xubuntu Lucid. Now I have fully-functional Linux box working inside a Windows session, which is pretty cool. It takes some time re-installing and re-configuring the system, but hey it's free. And the Xubuntu VM performance is more than acceptable.
Regards Liviu
2010/10/2 Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de:
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:03:59 +0100, Nick wrote:
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 23:31:37 +0300 Liviu Andronic landronimirc@gmail.com wrote:
Is anyone aware of a Cygwin build for Geany? I've seen this issue pop-up once on the ml this year, without a clear outcome. The reason
I compiled Geany in Cygwin once. According to the modification time of http://uvena.de/tmp/cygwin_xfce.png, this was in January 2007 :). I don't have the build environment anymore nor any idea how I did this. And also no idea whether Geany would still compile in Cygwin as the code changed a lot since early 2007. But it's probably worth a try if you want :).
I would need a Cygwin build is that I would like to use Geany for R programming, that is make use of its embedded vte terminal. Perhaps there is another way to get a terminal in the Windows build of Geany? Other ideas?
Nope, sorry.
I haven't heard of anyone getting VTE working with Geany on Windows. I don't know about Windows Cygwin builds either, we use MinGW.
It may be possible to build VTE on Windows, but Geany would probably require some small changes to work with it.
There is a bug report about porting VTE to Windows: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369310
Unfortunately, there wasn't much process lately.
Regards, Enrico
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