[GRASS5] Re: [GRASSLIST:2864] Re: GRASS 5.3 Cygwin distribution

[Richard Greenwood]

Glynn Clements wrote:

> That's to be expected; it's called "PNG", not "png", e.g.
> 
> 	d.mon PNG

Well that one was easy (or just plain stupid on my part). It apparently 
works on both my 5.0.3 and 5.3 Cygwin builds.

I'll address the FFTW issues when I have a bit more time.

Thanks for clarification on my NVWISH2.2 and proj questions.

Best regards,
Rich


>>Nviz question: With what versions of GRASS is it appropriate to use and 
>>distribute the Cygwin NVWISH2.2 that you provided?
> 
> 
> AFAIK, the binary should work with both 5.0.x and 5.3.
> 
> 
>>What would be merits of enabling proj?
> 
> 
> I'm not sure that there are any direct benefits.
> 
> I was under the impression (although I could be wrong) that the idea
> was ultimately to remove the copy of PROJ which is currently included
> in the GRASS source tree in favour of an external PROJ library once
> any issues had been resolved, and the option of using either the
> bundled version or an external version was a transitional measure.
> 
> 
>>Although I have it installed under Cygwin, GRASS configure fails
>>when I try to enable proj.
> 
> 
> I believe that you need a fairly recent version of PROJ.
> 
> The actual error messages from config.log may be of use to someone.
> 


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