[GRASS-dev] FW: [GRASS-user] GRASS for windows script solution

[Michael Barton]

Moritz,

Here is more information on GRASS for Windows and NVIZ from Isaac. We still
can¹t get NVIZ to launch if GRASS is started from the grass.bat file. Given
that it DOES work fine if launched from within MySys, it seems that this
must be some kind of path issue that is potentially solvable.

Also, I think we need to make MySys a dependency of GRASS for Windows. There
is just too much lost by not having access to the scripts‹including the nviz
script. Users without MySys will perceive GRASS as partly non-functional.
This is not a problem license-wise is it?

Michael
__________________________________________
Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
Director of Graduate Studies
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton

> ------ Forwarded Message
> From: Isaac Ullah <isaac.ullah at asu.edu>
> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 11:44:20 -0700
> To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> Subject: Re: FW: [GRASS-user] GRASS for windows script solution
> 

> I tried both of these solutions, and neither resulted in success (ie. NVIS
> still does not launch!) So far, the only solution that works for me is to move
> the grass install directory into the c:\mysys\1.0 directory, edit the
> "grass63" shell script so that the GISBASE is now set to
> "/c/msys/1.0/grass63RC2/grass- 6.3.0RC2", and then start grass by invoking
> that script at the command prompt in the mysys shell. If the grass directory
> is not installed in the mysys root directory, (ie. it's just in c:\) then
> mysys can find it since I can't cd in the mysys terminal below the mysys root
> folder "c/mysys/1.0/"
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Isaac
> 
> On 11/29/07, Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu> wrote:
>> Did you try the solution listed below?
>> 
>> Michael
>> __________________________________________
>> Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
>> Director of Graduate Studies
>> School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>> Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
>> Arizona State University
>> 
>> phone: 480-965-6213
>> fax: 480-965-7671
>> www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton
>> 
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>>> > From: Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be>
>>> > Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:38:31 +0100
>>> > To: francesco < francesco.pirotti at unipd.it
>>> <mailto:francesco.pirotti at unipd.it> >
>>> > Cc: <grass-user at lists.osgeo.org>
>>> > Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] GRASS for windows script solution
>>> >
>>> > On 28/11/07 11:01, francesco wrote:
>>>> >> Hello,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> For all fearless Wingrass users,  I would like to share a solution for
>>>> >> the following bug  ...."many shell scripts do not work, even if you
>>>> >> enable correctly msys and include LIB and BIN paths in the PATH windows
>>>> >> variable............" (from the readme file at the wingrass webpage).
>>>> >>
>>>> >> PROBLEM - Long story short, g.mlist gave me errors because it did not
>>>> >> fine "sed" and other executables, therefore scripts like g.mlist and
>>>> >> g.mremove do not work
>>>> >> SOLUTION -
>>>> >>    1 - open the "Init.bat" file located in the
>>>> >> "<grassinstallationdirectory>/grass-6.3.xxx/*etc*" ... do not use
>>>> >> notepad but a better editor that recognizes unix formatted text
>>>> >>    2 - add the line below *after* the   ..........if not
>>>> >> "%GRASS_ADDON_PATH%"==...................... line (should be line 29)
>>>> >>           set PATH=/c/msys/1.0/bin;%PATH%
>>>> >>    3 - of course /c/msys/1.0/bin is the path to the bin directory of
>>>> >> msys, if yours is different, adapt.
>>>> >>    4 - start grass and try.
>>> >
>>> > As mentioned int he README: "in order for shell scripts to work, you
>>> > will have to add msys' lib and bin directories to your path in the
>>> > grass63.bat file."
>>> >
>>> > So, no need to fiddle with Init.bat, just add it in grass63.bat:
>>> >
>>> > set PATH=%PATH+;c:\msys\1.0\bin;c:\msys\1.0\lib
>>> >
>>> > The information used to be in the .bat file, but we decided to take it
>>> > out in the effort of making wingrass independent of msys. But seeing the
>>> > many reactions on this, I think I will add it again.
>>> >
>>> > Moritz
>>> >
>>> >
>> 
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> 
> 
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> 
> Isaac I Ullah, M.A.
> 
> Archaeology PhD Student,
> ASU School of Evolution and Social Change
> 
> Research Assistant,
> Mediterranean Landscape Dynamics Project
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