[GRASS5] Cygwin build for 110401

[Markus Neteler]

John,
(Grass5 list)

On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 08:52:21AM -0600, John Huddleston wrote:
> Andreas, (Grass5 list)
> 
> I agree let's test it first.
> 
> Also, I followed Byars link (see below) Friday and see that the tar build
> does not include Postgresql.   Postgresql is available in the contrib section
> of Cygwin and does get installed.   It is included in the zip binaries.  
> 
> Regarding the nviz, I modified the Gmakefile.in to include the words
> 
> -lopengl32 -lglu32 -lX11
> 
> Then the system uses the Gmakefile.in to create the Gmakefile and it
> builds. These come from the Cygwin latest/w32api section.
Do you have a general solution for src.contrib/GMSL/NVIZ2.2/src/Gmakefile.in
using the OPENGL32 from head file recently included?
It would be nice to have it included automagically on every platform.

Markus


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Andreas Lange" <Andreas.Lange at Rhein-Main.de>
> To: <grass5 at geog.uni-hannover.de>
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 4:31 AM
> Subject: Re: [GRASS5] Cygwin build for 110401
> 
> 
> > Hi Markus, John, Malcolm,
> > 
> > i think that we should go first with the installable tar.gz tarball that
> > Malcolm uploaded. 
> > 
> > If we upload an untested zip file without instructions to install we
> > will get masses of emails asking for help. I can not provide individual
> > installation support. 
> > 
> > If the nviz wish is not installed properly, we should modify the
> > makefile. 
> > 
> > I still insist to make the whole procedure as general as possible. I
> > believe we should not rely on manual tweaking or on individual
> > configurations.
> > And i don't like the idea of distributing binary files that can not be
> > automatically rebuild. 
> > 
> > John, could you please post what you did to compile nviz2.2? Is this
> > going through the X11 libraries or with the Windows GUI library?
> > Does the StarNet X Server support OpenGL? I don't think so. 
> > 
> > Building PostgresSQL support seems to need the PostgreSQL source
> > package, my compile dies with message "missing postgres.h". The Postgres
> > package changed several times the last week. We should wait until this
> > settles down and we have the opportunity to test the setup. 
> > 
> > I did much testing yesterday and will prepare a short report. v.digit
> > has a very unusual behaviour (you have to press RETURN after each
> > message), but seems to work generally.
> > 
> > cu,
> > 
> > Andreas
> > 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "B. Byars" <Bruce_Byars at baylor.edu>
> To: <wingrass at geog.uni-hannover.de>
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 7:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [GRASSLIST:1732] [winGRASS] New winGrass Binaries Available
> 
> 
> > Updated at Baylor.
> > 
> > Bruce
> > 
> > Malcolm wrote:
> > 
> > > The new winGrass binaries are available now on
> > > the European site.  These should be available
> > > soon on the mirrors (including Baylor).
> > >
> > > Please note the updated installation
> > > instructions available from that same site.  To
> > > access this new version go to:
> > >
> > > http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/5.0winport.info.html
> > >
> > > Note, also, that there is now a version of
> > > tcl/tk compiled for cygwin/XFree86 available
> > > from the download directory that should let you
> > > use tcltkgrass.
> > >
> > > As the graphics driver and the tcl/tk interface
> > > are very new, these are considered
> > > experimental.  Various other parts of the system
> > > have been working longer, but not everything has
> > > been widely tested on Cygwin.  Please submit
> > > feedback to this list so that we can address
> > > problems.  If possible, note whether these
> > > problems are unique to winGrass, i.e. if you
> > > have GRASS on another platform what is the
> > > difference between the winGrass version.  A
> > > number of the cygwin platform specific issues
> > > are listed in the README.html file in the
> > > download directory.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Malcolm
> > >

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