[GRASS-dev] Re: winGRASS

[Michael Barton]

This will be GREAT! Thanks very much.

Michael


On 12/12/06 1:58 PM, "Paul Kelly" <paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello Moritz
> I've got a bit further with documenting what I was doing. See attached for
> some of my notes. Mostly on compiling the accompanying libraries GRASS
> absolutely needs:
> XDR
> Zlib
> libpng
> PROJ.4
> GDAL
> 
> I put these into a gzipped tar file in case anybody would like to get
> started quickly - in this case you would just need Msys,Mingw with bison
> and flex. Everything else included in here:
> http://www.stjohnspoint.co.uk/grass/wingrass-extralibs.tar.gz
> and then the prefix where you untar that file you will need to supply to
> the GRASS configure as:
> --with-includes=prefix --with-libs=prefix
> FWIW my configure line was:
> ./configure --prefix=c:/grass --bindir=c:/grass/bin \
> --with-includes=/c/grass/forgrass/include \
> --with-libs=/c/grass/forgrass/lib --with-cxx --without-jpeg --without-tiff \
> --without-postgres --with-opengl=windows --without-fftw --without-x \
> --enable-x11=no --enable-shared=yes --with-tcltk-includes=/c/tcl/include \
> --with-tcltk-libs=/c/tcl/bin
> 
> After compiling you should copy libxdr.dll, libproj.dll, libpng.dll,
> libgdal-1.dll and libz.dll.1.2.3 into the GRASS lib directory and all the
> GDAL and PROJ .exe files in the bin directory into the GRASS bin
> directory, and then you have a more or less self-contained GRASS
> distribution.
> 
> I also installed Activestate Tcl/Tk 8.4.13 (in c:\tcl).
> 
> I could make a binary distribution that sort of works OK to a certain
> extent without having Msys/Mingw installed, only thing is I want to wait
> until Nviz is working again on Windows as it was up to yesterday. The
> problem is starting it from a script. Scripts are very problematic (and of
> course only possible at all if you have Msys installed) because of the way
> Msys handles Windows paths.
> 
> If you have Msys and Mingw installed, putting their bin directories in the
> PATH makes things in general run more smoothly, but of course that's
> cheating!
> 
> Paul

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