[GRASS-dev] Re: [bug #5218] (grass) wingrass: creating new location from startup screen with projection values fails

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 07:07:54PM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> Native compilation is probably easier.
> 
> For this, you need MinGW and MSys, including gcc, g++, binutils, flex,
> bison, make, and pdcurses, all from:

I have taken liberty to copy this to the Wiki
http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/Compile_and_Install#MS-Windows.2Fnative


> Aside: it might encourage more people to work on the Windows version
> if the GRASS site contained binary versions of the necessary
> libraries. Having to build XDR, PROJ, GDAL, zlib, PNG, Tcl/Tk and
> possibly other stuff from source before you can start to compile GRASS
> is a major nuisance.

I can easily upload them to the GRASS site if someone provides me
with these binary packages.

Markus