[argyllcms] Re: MS Windows and Cygwin compatibility

I use Argyll on Windows (along with the DispcalGUI frontend) and it works fine.

 

Graeme might want to comment further, but I think your characterisation of Argyll as a "Linux tool ported to Windows" is not accurate - my impression is that all the platforms it works on (Linux, Windows & OS X) are first class targets for the code: releases are simultaneous and support seems to be identical.

The workaround techniques you suggest are, I think, likely to introduce more problems than they might solve (although I don't think there are any problems to solve).

Mike

> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:03:34 +0100
> From: krjg@xxxxxxx
> To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [argyllcms] MS Windows and Cygwin compatibility
>
> Hi,
>
> I am looking into using Argyll CMS for my profiling needs. It seems
> Argyll CMS is a Linux based tool, with some MS Windows ports available.
> Windows is my preferred desktop OS for photo editing, so the question is
> how reliable the Windows port is? Are there any drawbacks or problems
> when using the tools in Windows compared to Linux.
>
> Cygwin is also an option that I use already for other purposes, but it
> seems Argyll is not supported on Cygwin...?
>
> If there are problems with Argyll on Windows, can it be run in a virtual
> Linux installation, e.g. VirtualBox - just to do the profiling and then
> copy the resulting ICC files to Windows? Or do it need to run natively
> on Linux?
>
> /Kristian
>
>

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