This section provides some information useful to people who want to install gEDA onto their computers.
See the download page for more general information.
For Mac OSX distributions you may wish to download the latest Fink binaries prepared by Charles Lepple. See also notes on using gEDA on Mac.
gEDA is a set of GNU/Linux or Unix-native programs. There is no supported Windows version. However, since most programs are based on the cross-platform GTK+ libraries, it is possible to build a Windows version. Therefore, if you want a Windows version, please feel free to grab the sources and try to build one yourself.
Experimental releases of gEDA for Microsoft Windows™. Still a work in progress.
MinGW hooks are built into many of the gEDA applications. Therefore, knowledgeable individuals have been able to build, install, and run many of the tools on Windows systems. Also, the tools do run on Windows under the Cygwin environment. However, binary executables for most of the gEDA Suite are not currently distributed by the gEDA Project. If you are a developer and wish to provide ongoing support for Windows, please contact the project via the geda-user e-mailing list.
This worked to install geda on Windows XP on 3/9/2012: