[Paraview] cygwin installation

[Ben Boeckel]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 10:20:50 +1300, Zohar Levi via ParaView wrote:
> To be more specific, I'm building paraview 5.4.1 (gcc on cygwin), and I 
> get the following errors:
> 
> $ make
> [� 0%] Built target vtkWrappingTools
> [� 0%] Built target vtkWrapHierarchy
> [� 0%] Building CXX object 
> VTK/Utilities/KWSys/vtksys/CMakeFiles/vtksys.dir/EncodingCXX.cxx.o
> /c/prj-lib-cyg/paraview/VTK/Utilities/KWSys/vtksys/EncodingCXX.cxx: In 
> constructor 
> 'vtksys::Encoding::CommandLineArguments::CommandLineArguments(int, const 
> char
> * const*)':
> /c/prj-lib-cyg/paraview/VTK/Utilities/KWSys/vtksys/EncodingCXX.cxx:66:34: 
> error: 'strdup' was not declared in this scope

kwsys should certainly be supported on cygwin. It has <string.h>
included at the top. Brad?

> On 25/11/17 18:06, Zohar Levi wrote:
> > The doc says that cygwin isn't supported:
> >
> > https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView:Build_And_Install

It's not a platform we test on nor hold back releases for if it is
broken. It's on a "if it works, great." support basis. But, if there are
patches that fix it, we'll take a look at them.

--Ben