[vtkusers] VTK Builds on Cygwin

[Volpe, Christopher R (CRD)]

|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: Mumit Khan [mailto:khan at NanoTech.Wisc.EDU]
|> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 6:03 PM
|> To: Volpe, Christopher R (CRD)
|> Cc: vtkusers at public.kitware.com
|> Subject: RE: [vtkusers] VTK Builds on Cygwin
|> 
|> 
|> On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Volpe, Christopher R (CRD) wrote:
|> 
|> > I grabbed Cygwin Beta-20 before they started charging 
|> money for it. Will it work with that version,
|> > or do I really need the latest version? (Just curious, I 
|> really have no reason to use the Cygwin
|> > compiler on Wintel anyway, I just like their bash shell.)
|> 
|> Just to avoid misinformation, Cygwin has always been 
|> available for free
|> (it's released under GPL, so the source must be available). Cygnus
|> solutions, now acquired by RedHat Inc., did release a "commercial" 
|> Cygwin release 1.0, but was quickly superceded by the net releases,
|> now at 1.1.7.
|> 
|> For the changes, you need a reasonably new version, preferably 1.1.7.
|> You can install it right over the net, just check Cygwin home page:
|> http://www.cygwin.com/ or http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/

I'm glad to hear that binary distributions of the latest release are now available for free. At one
point I was not able to obtain that without purchasing it. Perhaps source was available, but I was
referring to the neatly-packaged install executable. Thanks for the information


|> 
|> Regards,
|> Mumit
|> 
|>