[GRASS-dev] Updates to wingrass-extralibs

[Joel Pitt]

Thanks for that Paul, the previous precompiled gdal had a bug when
importing files certain files that I needed.

I did come across the problem with libraries not being found:
libpng13.dll and zlib1.dll. I just renamed the files I had (libpng.dll
and libz.dll from the old wingrass-extralibs package) and it seems to
work. Not sure if they were the same version you used though and
whether it'll break something... it seems to be working so far
though...

J

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Paul Kelly
<paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk> wrote:
> Spurred on by the work that Marco is doing, I've finally got around to
>  packaging the new versions of essential libraries for WinGRASS that I
>  compiled a couple of months ago. In case it is helpful to anybody, the
>  13MB file wingrass-extralibs-20080303.tar.gz now at
>  http://www.stjohnspoint.co.uk/grass/ contains the following versions of
>  libraries:
>  xdr-4.0-mingw32
>  proj-4.6.0
>  gdal-1.5.0
>  fftw-2.1.5 (this was before I realised FFTW 3.x is OK with GRASS)
>  tcl-8.5.0
>  tk-8.5.0
>
>  I have copies of all the source packages but I don't have the
>  bandwidth/diskspace really to make them available there to download as
>  well, so this can't be considered an official binary distribution of them.
>  Nevertheless I hope it is useful.
>
>  I didn't compile anything else as I found I was able to get all the other
>  dependencies from GnuWin32 (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/), i.e.
>  libintl, libjpeg, libpng, zlib, libtiff, freetype, curses. No point in
>  reinventing the wheel when they are already available in an easy-to-use
>  format.
>
>  The 13MB file includes all the libraries and associated utility programs,
>  source headers and import libraries etc. necessary for compiling.
>  Obviously only the .dlls (and maybe even then not all of them) need to go
>  into a GRASS binary distribution, so the size would be much smaller. It's
>  normally useful though to include a couple of the main GDAL utility
>  programs: gdalwarp, gdalinfo and so on. nad2bin from the PROJ distribution
>  is required, and cs2cs is very useful.
>
>  I realise this is slightly different from the approach Marco is taking, in
>  that I'm directing people to GnuWin32 for the stuff that they have
>  available already - again that's just laziness on my part really but I
>  think it will be less work in the future.
>
>  The great thing about this now is that we can include the Tcl/Tk DLLs in
>  the binary distribution and don't have to ask people to install a separate
>  Tcl/Tk any more.
>
>  Also I don't have a lot of time to maintain this either, but if someone
>  wants to run a relatively stripped-down WinGRASS and compile it themselves
>  it might just be useful, so I thought I'd put it out there to complement
>  Marco's work.
>
>  Paul
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