Licensed Ribbons Software: Windows XP PC w/ Cygwin X-server Executables
Last update: Sep 22, 2006
The native PC version is has now gotten pretty good. Would recommend this, plus perhaps just the main graphics program below 'ribbons.exe'.
Cygwin (www.cygwin.com) turns your PC into a linux box. It's what I use at home if running Windows XP.
My .bashrc file has:alias xsh='X -multiwindow &' export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0I type 'xsh' to open an X-window, then 'ribbons' to run the program.
To save images, hit ctrl-F12. Note: antialiasing is very slow.ribbons 3.32 was compiled on my new home PC running Windows XP, with all the latest X-free/GNU stuff from Cygwin loaded. Everything in the main program seems to work. The X/Motif GUI is a little slow and clunky, but better than it was. Have converted all the C-shell utilities into Python, but I can't figure out how to make the Windows python/scripts to work happily together with my commands. Advice welcome. The Cygwin ribbons version does has all the unix features. Hope someone will check it out.
Suggest you get the new 'Windows PC' distribution first, as it's 'ribbons-demo' script works better (except you should do 'entry-ribbons' as a keyboard command...). Just unzip the main program executable into the C:/Ribbons/bin directory. The compiled utilities are all the same as the ones below.
Windows XP w/ Cygwin X-server:
ribbons 3.32 (Sep 22, 2006)
- unzip332.py -- Python script to un-tar the Cygwin distribution.
- rib_cygwx.tgz -- ribbons 3.32 'bin/ribbons.exe' main executable.
- rib_cygwu.tgz -- ribbons 3.32 'bin/*.exe' utilities executables.
You must have the required files of the Base Distribution, plus the 'rib_cygw*.tgz' archives above. These are just compressed archives of parts of the ~ribbons/bin directory. Since I don't have the C-shell, am using Python to unpack:
python unzip332.pyor just (from RIBBONS_HOME), eg:
tar xzvf rib_cygwx.tgz
If you want to try to build, use the 'config.py' script (see install/ReadMe).