[GRASS-user] Help reqired

[Paolo Cavallini]

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AFAIK, GRASS 6.3 is 95% compilable natively on win, and running fine.
Only a few modules are not (yet) working.
Alternatively, current QGIS installs bring the power of GRASS to win.
pc

Brad Douglas ha scritto:
> On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 18:24 -0500, Arindam Nath wrote:
>> Hi, 
>> I am trying if I can use the source code for GRASS and compile in VC++
>> (Windows.) so that I can run from Windows platfrom without Cygwin. The
>> desire is to run it just as a VC++ workspace.
>> Can any one please help me in ths regard. 
> 
> GRASS uses a number of UNIX conventions that are not present in Windows.
> Cygwin provides the majority of missing functionality.
> 
> Unfortunately, a native[1] Windows port would involve a rewrite of most
> of the code.  IMO, the only realistic approach is to emulate object
> orientation so that each OS could provide low level hooks to generalize
> the code sanely (this approach will not cluttering the code with
> preprocessor macros, long branches, etc.).
> 
> It would be nice to provide a native Windows port, but I don't see this
> happening anytime soon.  There is too much code and not enough
> entrenched developers to provide such Whiz-Bang features.
> 
> [1] Cygwin is *not* native Windows.  WIN32 API *is*.
> 
> 

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