[GRASS5] FW: [winGRASS] libgrass_gis.dll was not found !

[Paul Kelly]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Andrea Antonello wrote:

>> Cygwin shared libraries are always .dll (well any I have ever seen and
>> certainly the GRASS ones).
>
> Thanks Paul! Hmm, my ignorance. So the next question (so that I can see the
> light at some point): Can I use that dll to call it's functions outside of
> the Cygwin environment? Let's say I want to call some function from inside a
> java environment. Obviously supplying the needed grass environment. Is that
> enough?

Possibly. I think you need the Cygwin dll as well. But yes it might work!


>> Thanks for your replies. File libgrass_gis.dll does not exist in my
>> system... Where can I find it?(if it is the only one that I am
>> missing...)
>
> Dear Sotiris, I'm sorry, but I have no idea. I was thinking it was some
> missplaced path, but you really miss the library.
> Guess Paul will tell us the solution.

It seems it was a binary distribution compiled with static libraries. So 
I've no idea where the request for the dll came from.

Paul