[GRASS5] Cygwin binary package

[Mike Thomas]

Hi there.

Whichever was the last version of Grass for which I sent a Cygwin binary 
package, NVIZ was built into that package, tested and known to work.

Cheers

Mike Thomas


Glynn Clements wrote:

>Markus Neteler wrote:
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>>>>>I have a report that one of the Cygwin binary packages on grass.itc.it
>>>>>includes a broken version of NVIZ (linked against Cygwin's tcl84.dll,
>>>>>which won't work).
>>>>>
>>>>>Can someone either remove the package, or at least remove NVIZ from
>>>>>it.
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>Is there much difference in having included a broken NVIZ instead
>>>>of no NVIZ?
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>No NVIZ is easier to explain.
>>>
>>>The user reports that this was with wingrass_generic.
>>>      
>>>
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>He's changed his mind; apparently it was wingrass_xserver. That
>*should* be built with OpenGL and TclTk; however, you have to force it
>to use xtcltk and not Cygwin's Tcl/Tk, e.g. using
>
>--with-tcltk-includes=/usr/local/include --with-tcltk-libs=/usr/local/lib
>
>If you don't have xtcltk, then at least use --without-tcltk.
>
>It would be nice to have configure check that the version of Tcl/Tk
>which it finds will actually work, but I have no idea how to detect
>that.
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