[GRASS-dev] Re: winGRASS

[Moritz Lennert]

On Fri, December 15, 2006 18:01, Paul Kelly wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Moritz Lennert wrote:
>
>> Next step: make install
>>
>> - doesn't install the grass63.bat file in bin
>> - when I copy grass63.bat to c:\grass\bin and modify it so that
>> set WINGISBASE=c:\grass\grass-6.3.cvs
>> I get error in startup script: "can't read "env(GISBASE)": no such
>> variable while executing "source $env(GISBASE)/etc/gtcltk/gmsg.tcl"
>> (file
>> "c:\grass\grass-6.3.cvs\etc\gis_set.tcl" line 29)
>
> Possibly that something goes wrong in init.bat because the demolocation
> directory doesn't get copied across during "make install"? I had been
> using the .grassrc63 file in there as a temporary GISRC file so g.dirseps
> would work. Need to find a clean solution to this - all it needs is a
> temporary file; it is fairly meaningless really. This ties in nicely with
> what Michael is looking at wrt a temporary GISRC file to make g.proj run!
>
> If you copy across "demolocation/.grassrc63" to the install directory does
> it work? If so, that confirms the problem and we need to look at a more
> elegant solution with regard to the temporary GISRC files.

Will try this on Monday, when I have access to a windows machine again.

Moritz