Re: [orca-list] ORCA cygwin

[Jacob Schmude <j schmude gmail com>]

Hi
Actually, assuming you get GNOME set up in cygwin (yes, it's possible)  
and are able to get espeak or Festival or some other tts to compile  
and run under it, you shouldn't have any issues running Orca. It is a  
bit odd, and I don't know what its responsiveness would be like, but  
Orca will generally run everywhere that GNOME runs and that includes  
some interesting platforms such as cygwin. NOte that Orca is designed  
for GNOME, if all the components are there it couldn't really care  
less what the underlying os is. I've gotten it working, for example,  
under Mac OS X with a self-compiled GNOME tree which made for a rather  
interesting environment I must say.
In general though it would most likely be less of a hassle to get a  
LiveCD of Linux or Opensolaris and boot those up to give Orca a test  
run. It'd be more effort to get Cygwin/GNOME installed than it would  
be to do that, and most likely the Livecd would run better anyway.


On Aug 3, 2009, at 00:33, Rakesh arky Ambati wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Orca screen reader is designed to work on gnu/Linux Gnome Desktop..  
> You can't use it on Windows. Instead you can try out gnu/Linux using  
> a LiveCD or install it inside windows.
>
> http://lifehacker.com/228956/install-and-run-ubuntu-without-disturbing-windows
>
> If you want a free software screen reader that runs on Windows try  
> NVDA http://www.nvda-project.org/ .
>
>
> Cheers
>
> --arky
>
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> --- On Mon, 3/8/09, sajna <sajini cdactvm in> wrote:
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> > Subject: [orca-list] ORCA cygwin
> > To: orca-list gnome org
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