[GRASS-dev] Re: winGRASS

[Paul Kelly]

Hello Moritz
I know I got this working but to be honest I'm not completely sure how. 
I've made a start on re-doing everything from scratch and making proper 
notes now that I know it's possible.

I would say you could try configuring GDAL --without-libtool perhaps.
Also some very promising looking hints and tips on libtool on here:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/compile.html

Paul

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Moritz Lennert wrote:

> Hello Paul,
> (cc'ing this to the list, so that Paul is not alone...)
>
> On 09/12/06 15:56, Paul Kelly wrote:
>> Hello Moritz
>> 
>> On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Moritz Lennert wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello Paul,
>>> 
>>> I'm finally sitting in front of a Windows computer trying to compile GRASS
>>> myself.
>>> 
>>> On Thu, November 23, 2006 12:38, Paul Kelly wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I had a look at that site; certainly lots of useful information on
>>>> building there. E.g. I don't expect they will have the stripped-down XDR
>>>> or GDAL or PROJ, and they were the biggest challenges to build properly
>>>> anyway.
>>> 
>>> At this stage I just used ./configure;make;make install, just to see
>>> whether everything seems to work.
>>> I imagine I will need to do some more tweaking, would happen to have
>>> recorded your configure settings somewhere ?
>> 
>> For the other software, no net yet. Some of it I think I just used the 
>> Makefiles as the configure script wasn't working on Windows. But I intend 
>> to re-build it all from scratch very soon and will take proper notes then.
>
> I've tried to build GRASS having just compiled the other libraries with 
> configure&make&make install.
>
> I get the following error:
>
> c:/Moritz/gdal-cvs-2006.12.07/libgdal.la: file not recognized: File format 
> not recognized
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** 
> [/c/moritz/grass6/dist.i686-pc-mingw32/lib/libgrass_gproj.6.3.cvs.dll] Error 
> 1
>
> and
>
> c:/Moritz/gdal-cvs-2006.12.07/libgdal.la: file not recognized: File format 
> not recognized
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[3]: *** 
> [/c/moritz/grass6/dist.i686-pc-mingw32/lib/libgrass_vect.6.3.cvs.dll] Error 1
>
> which then obviously leads to many errors afterwards.
>
> I have attached the entire make log and the libgdal.la file.
>
> Any ideas of what is wrong with the .la file ?
>
> Also, I've seen some debate on cross-compiling lately. If this is reasonably 
> easy, it would make life easier for me as I would not have to wait for my 
> colleague's windows machine to be free...
>
> Moritz
>