[Insight-developers] Will ITK4 support cygwin?

[Bill Lorensen]

Hans,

Should we officially announce this? Bill can probably help with the wording,

Bil


On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Hans Johnson <hans-johnson at uiowa.edu> wrote:
> 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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