[Insight-developers] Will ITK4 support cygwin?

[Hans Johnson]

I'd agree with this.

Hans


On 1/4/11 4:24 PM, "Bill Hoffman" <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:

> On 1/4/2011 4:25 PM, Bill Lorensen wrote:
>> Folks,
>> 
>> We do not have any dashboards for cygwin. Is this a supported platform?
>> 
>> Personally, I use mingw for a gcc compiler on windows. In my opinion,
>> cygwin is bloated and slow. There are cmake distribution issues with
>> cygwin (that's a long story with a long email trail on the cmake
>> mailing list). But, in the past, we had a cygwin nightly.
>> 
>> In Code/* there are 24 instances of #if's that reference cygwin (as a
>> comparison, there are 19 #if's that reference my old pal Borland).
>> 
> 
> I would say that we should remove specific support for cygwin.  Once
> cygwin reaches its goal of being a posix system, then itk should work
> with no if cygwin stuff at all.   The next cygwin release of CMake will
> treat the platform like posix.
> 
> -Bill
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