[GRASS5] cygwin/windows port

[Mike Thomas]

Great news Malcolm.  I guess I need to install X Windows soon!

----- Original Message -----
From: Malcolm Blue <mblue at nb.sympatico.ca>
To: <grass5 at geog.uni-hannover.de>
Sent: Tuesday, 19 December 2000 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: [GRASS5] cygwin/windows port


> Hello cygwin users.
>
> I had some minor success with the XDRIVER running on cygwin/XFree.  I
> was finally able to get a monitor started with d.mon.  Unfortunately, I
> cannot yet select and draw to it, but since the errors were similar to
> those from d.mon start=X#, I should be able to hunt them down.  There
> are bugs in the cygwin IPC sources and libraries.  Once I have made a
> bit more progress I will provide details.
>
> I have been using the IPC messaging and currently have overwritten the
> connect.c, SWITCHER.c and io.c in the XDRIVER/lib, XDRIVER/XDRIVER24 and
> libes/raster.  Although there have been some discussions of the merits
> of using the IPC messaging since it is not portable, I think we can get
> it to work on cygwin without messing up the existing structure.  For
> example, creating a CYG-XDRIVER and cygrasterlib.a (we can still use the
> sources and object files that don't use fifo).  Or, now that I am
> getting more familiar with IPC (which wasn't my goal when I started) and
> have looked into the use of sockets a bit, I think that there may be a
> couple of avenues to explore.  A few people have expressed interest in
> getting this working so maybe my VERY small success will stimulate some
> new discussions and ideas....
>
> Any comments or suggestions?
>
> Malcolm
>
>
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