WinXastir

It took far too many hours to build, test and package the WinXastir CD-Rom for the few copies that were shipped. I'll keep the technology alive but can't afford to spin any more ATU's on this project for the few folks that were interested. On to bigger and better things.

Bill

183 MB as a bzip2 file... Xastir 1.4.2 - my build #26 - from March 10.

http://www.lintronix.com/winxastir/plus

login - xastir0503 pw - downloads

This is the CD-ROM without all the extras such as shape files and callsign databases. If you have the bandwidth to download the .ISO, you'll already be set up to easily download the extras from their Internet home.

This will be available for a brief time... Get it now while it's hot.

73,Bill

> On average?
>
> At a minimum?

I did two clean installs...

Properties on c:\cygwin for the xastir-min install show 120 MB (149 MB on Disk)

Properties on c:\cygwin for xastir-devel show 365 MB (425 on Disk).

The "min" install has 10,654 files..

Seems that all windowing systems have a bit of a software bloat problem. The XYL's 2 GHz WinXP system with 768 MB ram makes the Xastir/Cygwin install nearly painless. It's fun to watch the memory used creep up to nearly 500 MB. Back when I had only 256 MB (only?) in the system, it would take a very long time and the CPU usage sat around 3%.
Disk bound swapping can really slow a compile.

Now the CPU is where it belongs during a compile - at 00%.

Bill

Ok.. It was a whole list of "somethings." Cygwin is busted (a little) on Win98. My local mirror had some corrupt files. Etc. A new script to verify the local mirror and running on the XYL's XP box made a big difference.

It should all be better now.

The plain "xastir" package has been replaced with "xastir-stable".

The "xastir-devel" package adds one script to make setting up CVS easy and dependencies for all the necessary development packages if you want to rebuild Xastir on Cygwin.

# from a Cygwin BASH window - after installing xastir-devel
$ mkdir src
$ cd src
$ /usr/local/bin/xastirSetupCVS.sh
# press in response to the login prompt.
# when CVS checkout is done...
$ cd xastir
$ sh bootstrap.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

If you to recreate a STABLE build - add the following after the "cd xastir"
$ cvs update -r STABLE

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> > > >I'd appreciate the feedback if anybody trys the network install at
> > > >
> > > > http://www.lintronix.com/winxastir
> The three Xastir packages now available.
>
> * xastir-min -- the minimum to have a running stable Xastir
> * xastir-stable -- Stable source with as many libraries and features that can be directly loaded.
> * xastir-devel -- one little script for setting up CVS checkouts but with all the dependencies required to compile the source.

73,
Bill - WA7NWP
http://www.lintronix.com/winxastir

# posted by Bill @ 5:25 PM 0 comments

>> I'd appreciate the feedback if anybody trys the network install at
>> http://www.lintronix.com/winxastir

> Just did the network install here. XP-SP2 updated. Worked a charm.

Please give it another try. I've been putting too many ATU's in to WinXastir and I think I'm finally making some progress. Lots of little things and hickups are keeping it challenging and a character building exercise..

Basic Cygwin (touch command) is broken for Win98 right now. Things like that don't help.

Bottom line - there's now three Xastir packages available.

* xastir-min -- the minimum to have a running stable Xastir
* xastir -- Stable source with as many libraries and features that can be directly loaded.
* xastir-devel -- one little script for setting up CVS checkouts but with all the dependencies required to compile the source.

I'm still tuning the dependencies.. xastir-min and xastir should have just what they need to run. xastir-devel should have what's needed to compile Xastir. Any corrections to my lists would be appreciated. I'm pretty sure I can pull some out of xastir-min and shrink that install a bit. I'm gong to look at that tomorrow.

> > Only 'gotchya' was an error dialog talking about line 15 in setup.ini
> > after it's downloading from the lintronix site (Parse Error).

I see that sometimes. Seems to be random. There's weirdness here.

73,
Bill - WA7NWP
http://www.lintronix.com/winxastir

Compiling a full featured Cygwin Xastir executable is a challenge. Here's a precompiled Xastir ready to go.

Download it, decompressed it with bzip -d <> xastir.exe, put it in /usr/local/bin and set the execute permissions.

Xastir 1.4.2 Compiled 1/11/2005

Be sure to export MAGICK_HOME=/usr or Tigermaps won't work.

Output from ./configure step of compile

xastir 1.4.2 has been configured using the following external libraries

Building with AX25 .............................. : no
Building with Festival .......................... : no
Building with GPSMan ............................ : no
Building with ImageMagick ....................... : yes
Building with libproj ........................... : yes
Building with GeoTiff ........................... : yes
Building with GDAL/OGR .......................... : no
Building with ShapeLib .......................... : yes
Building with pcre .............................. : yes
Building with dbfawk ............................ : yes
Building with map caching ....................... : no
Building with ErrorPopups ....................... : no
Building with libgc (Debug) ..................... : no
Building with profiling (Debug) ................. : no
Building with rtree indexing (experimental) ..... : no

xastir will be installed in /usr/local/bin.

The Cygwin Xastir network install document web page has been tweaked. The latest STABLE Xastir CVS source has been fetched, compiled and uploaded. It's time to give the WinXastir network install a workout...