[GRASS-dev] GRASS & cygwin quite slow

[Huidae Cho]

I found the latest CVS version does not compile under the last week's
Cygwin for some reasons.  Maybe this problem has to do with the way of
building DLLs.  Has anyone tried to compile CVS sources under Cygwin?

Huidae Cho

On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 08:39:18PM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> Moritz Lennert wrote:
> 
> > >>> Currently, the GRASS TclTk GUI works without X11. Almost all GRASS modules
> > >>> work without X11 or there is a TclTk replacement for critical modules.
> > >>> v.digit is the only major exception now. NVIZ without X11 may still be in
> > >>> transition. It still has problems on Intel Macs and I'm not sure about where
> > >>> it is for Windows.
> > 
> > Using the grass-cvs binaries from http://geni.ath.cx/grass.html which 
> > according to the web page date from April 17, 2006, even the gis.m seems 
> > to use X. At least, there is a large X in the top left of all the 
> > windows. The provided .bat file (http://geni.ath.cx/grass/grass61.bat) 
> > starts Xwin and then launches an xterm within that Xwin session.
> > 
> > So, how can I use the guis without X ?
> 
> 1. Download the Tcl/Tk source code, and compile it. You might be able
> to use the ActiveState Tcl/Tk package for gis.m, although I haven't
> tried it. It's less likely that it would work with NVIZ. Cygwin's
> Tcl/Tk *definitely* won't work with GRASS, due to the way it handles
> filenames.
> 
> 2. Download the GRASS source code, and compile it.
> 
> -- 
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
> 
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