AFAIK there are people using FreeCAD this way.Have any of you tried to run the Windows version within Linux via Wine?
That's not a Windows related problem but due to the use of a quite old Qt version. On Windows we are still on Qt 4.5 and there the SVG support isn't that good and that's why many of the icons are broken. So, as said in a post yesterday we have two options:I am wondering if I could do so in order to test how well something might work in Windows, for example those annoying SVG icons.
Disagree, it was pretty straightforward two years ago, when FC was a much simpler package. Today you have to meet dozens dependencies and resolve problems - coin60 vs coin80, pivy (internal or external?), shiboken (what it is? something about that japanese dog?normandc wrote: And it's pretty straightforward on Debian/Ubuntu,
Finally, 20 min compilation... Mepis is based on Debian stable, AFAIK it still has coin60 and the libraries are older so it should be a lot less troublesome. Yeah there are more dependencies, but what about it? I believe they're all listed on the CompileOnUnix page.kwahoo wrote:Today you have to meet dozens dependencies and resolve problems - coin60 vs coin80, pivy (internal or external?),
How about Wine takes 500MB to 1GB of disk space. Storage is cheap nowadays, still I dislike it.kwahoo wrote:Cons:
Hello, Normandc! The reason I installed the Windows version in Mepis Linux was that I wanted a later FreeCAD version than 0.10 from the Mepis repositories.normandc wrote:Is there any reason why you are not using a native package?
You sound almost as ranting as Dnyberg did. I suggest you write to Alexandre Julliard and inform him that he is managing a bloatware project. Wine is a great asset in my own and my colleagues' work. I am also the Swedish translator of Crossover, another very useful product built on Wine.normandc wrote:If there is none, compiling FreeCAD has got to be better than using that Wine bloatware.
