[Scribus] Scribus on Cygwin?

[Peter Linnell]

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 11:05, James Farley wrote:
> Hello all,
>     I am new to GIMP and like it a lot.. I would also like to try working in
> Scribus, but I see that there is no windows version. Would Cygwin work? It's
> been noted on the winGIMP group that Cygwin makes GIMP more linuxy under
> windows... Maybe an article in the archive addresses this, but I couldn't
> find any reference to Cygwin in any subject lines...
> 
> Thanks for pushing this new frontier!
> 
> J. Farley

Compiling Scribus with Cygwin, needs to have an update to the docs. 

>From my *very* basic knowledge of Qt and understanding the patches made
by Martin Gassner for HP-UX, a set of patches needs to be made to
Scribus, so when compiled under Cygwin, it finds the plug-ins. This is
the single largest issue to make Scribus run with KDE-Cygwin. 

I just have not had the time to play with it much in the past few
months. 

Basics:

1. You need the exact version of Cygwin 1.3.20 or 1.3.21. Later ones
have partial 64 bit file support which breaks the ported Qt-X11
2. You need the gcc2 and tool chain including specially patched versions
of ld and 
3. A good knowledge of both Windows envirnoment variables and Cygwin.
4. A fast machine with at least 512 Mb or ram.

Moreover, I am waiting a bit for the KDE-Cygwin team to progress a
little further before diving back in. They *are* doing some very
interesting things and are also pushing for a GPL Qt3-Win32. Already
some stuff is working and with some changes to the font and printing
code, this would enable someday a native Win32 Scribus.  This project is
under very heavy development, but not in any sense stable or finished.

Regards,
Peter