[GRASS-dev] GRASS & cygwin quite slow

[Moritz Lennert]

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.
> 


Just to make sure: to do this, I need MinGW or MSys, or both ?

Moritz