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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Hi all,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>I just finished to prepare and test the installer of WinGRASS-6.3.0RC5; I guessed to finished it two or three days ago, but I had some unexpected problems to fix;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>BTW, I have some other thinhs to explain, so, let's come with order</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>1) I updated the Building Guide with instructions on how to create a self contained package; see <A href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/BuildingOnWindows">http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/BuildingOnWindows</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>2) I made a document that explain the content and usage of pre-released <A href="http://grass.fsv.cvut.cz/wiki/data/MSYS_Environment_080303.zip"><U><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>http://grass.fsv.cvut.cz/wiki/data/MSYS_Environment_080303.zip</U></FONT></A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>I uploaded it to <A href="http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/grass/MSYS_Environment_080303_README.txt">http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/grass/MSYS_Environment_080303_README.txt</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>3) WinGRASS Installer:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>I temporarily uploaded it to <A href="http://www.laser4000.it/temp/WinGRASS-6.3.0RC5-Setup.exe">http://www.laser4000.it/temp/WinGRASS-6.3.0RC5-Setup.exe</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Please, someone could upload it to a GRASS server space? thanks</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Now let's come to the installer:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>3.1) Unfortunately, I didn't complete all the things I planned to do, that is it still doesn't support installation paths containing blanks; if you select a path with blanks, the installer detects it and abort install. Actually, I preferred to not completely abort install process, but simply ask to re-entry the install path, but the installer script language (NSIS) doesn't support this feature; so, when you select a path with blanks and press "proceed" button, it display a warning message asking to "not select paths with blanks" and the aborts installation. It a minor problem, but I would feel better if I solved it....</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>3.2) Installation procedure dinamically creates three different files, in order to reflect installation path selected by user:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>- grass63, to let start GRASS from MSYS console)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>- .grassrc6, to avoid usual error message at first GRASS launch</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>- grass63.bat</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>3.3) Installer creates a complete "standard" windows installation, with registry key entries, shortcuts (desktop and menu) and automated uninstall procedure. If you also access "add/remove programs" menu, you can see GRASS install informations item. About shortcuts, installer automaticallt creates:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>- Start menu GRASS folder with link to grass63.bat and msys.bat</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>- Desktop link to grass63.bat</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>3.4) During install procedure you can also select to download and install Spearfish sample database. By the way, standard procedure sets the prebuilt "demolocation" as standard location.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>3.5) Final notes: I tested it, also in the uninstall procedure, and it works fine for me (NVIZ included, with Tcl-Tk 8.5.1 support).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>I also added a README.txt file, please read it and tell me if I made errors. I post its content (that also describes the content on this GRASS release)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>GRASS 6.3.0RC5 - Technology preview release candidate 5<BR>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><BR><FONT size=2>INTRODUCTION:<BR>------------------------</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a free, open source Geographical information system (GIS) capable of handling raster, topological vector, image processing, and graphic data.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>GRASS is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The GRASS Development Team is a multi-national group consisting of developers at numerous locations. GRASS is one of the eight initial Software Projects of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>GRASS GIS main web site: </FONT><A href="http://grass.osgeo.org/"><FONT size=2>http://grass.osgeo.org/</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV><BR><FONT size=2>WinGRASS:<BR>-----------------</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>WinGRASS is a GRASS Development Team Project, concerning Windows Native Binary porting of latest technology previews of GRASS 6.3.0.<BR>The current release, based on GRASS 6.3.0RC5 (Technology preview release candidate 5), has been built on a i686 machine under MinGW environment.<BR>WinGRASS contains parts of the following open source softwares and libraries:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Software/library (release):</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>- MSYS (1.0.11)<BR>- Flex (2.5.4a-1)<BR>- Bison (2.1)<BR>- Zlib (1.2.3)<BR>- Libpng (1.2.24)<BR>- Libtiff (3.8.2)<BR>- Xdr (4.0)<BR>- Freetype (2.3.5)<BR>- FFTW (3.1.2)<BR>- PDCurses (3.3)<BR>- PROJ.4 (4.6.0)<BR>- GEOS (2.2.3)<BR>- PostgreSQL (8.2.6)<BR>- SQLite (3.5.6)<BR>- GDAL (1.5.0) *<BR>- Tcl/Tk (8.5.1)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>*with GEOS, PostgreSQL and SQlite support enabled</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>All the previous softwares and libraries have been built from sources on a i686 machine under MinGW environment, with the exception of MSYS, provided by MinGW Project on SourceForge.NET (</FONT><A href="http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml"><FONT size=2>http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml</FONT></A><FONT size=2>), and Flex and Bison, provided by GnuWin32 Project on SourceForge.NET (</FONT><A href="http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/"><FONT size=2>http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/</FONT></A><FONT size=2>).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>The current release of GRASS 6.3.0RC5 has been built with the following configuration:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>GRASS is now configured for: i686-pc-mingw32</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Source directory: /usr/local/src/grass-6.3.0RC5<BR>Build directory: /usr/local/src/grass-6.3.0RC5<BR>Installation directory: ${prefix}/grass-6.3.0RC5<BR>Startup script in directory: ${exec_prefix}/bin<BR>C compiler: gcc -g -O2 <BR>C++ compiler: c++ -g -O2<BR>Building shared libraries: yes</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>64bit support: no<BR>OpenGL platform: Windows</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>NVIZ: yes</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>BLAS support: no<BR>C++ support: yes<BR>DWG support: no<BR>FFMPEG support: no<BR>FFTW support: yes<BR>FreeType support: yes<BR>GDAL support: yes<BR>GLw support: no<BR>JPEG support: no<BR>LAPACK support: no<BR>Large File Support (LFS): yes<BR>Motif support: no<BR>MySQL support: no<BR>NLS support: no<BR>ODBC support: no<BR>OGR support: yes<BR>OpenGL support: yes<BR>PNG support: yes<BR>PostgreSQL support: yes<BR>Python support: no<BR>Readline support: no<BR>SQLite support: yes<BR>Tcl/Tk support: yes<BR>wxWidgets support: no<BR>TIFF support: yes<BR>X11 support: no<BR>MacOSX application: no</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>All builds are provided by Marco Pasetti.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Information on how to build GRASS from source code on Windows under MinGW environment are available at </FONT><A href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/BuildingOnWindows"><FONT size=2>http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/BuildingOnWindows</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV><BR><FONT size=2>WinGRASS Installer:<BR>------------------------------</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>WinGRASS Installer has been made using the OpenSource NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) software - </FONT><A href="http://nsis.sourceforge.net"><FONT size=2>http://nsis.sourceforge.net</FONT></A><BR><FONT size=2>NSIS script provided by Marco Pasetti</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Thats all. I hope you like it ;-)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Marco</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>