[GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3 on Cygwin

[Benjamin Ducke]

Yes I have. It's not usable in practice because all modules that access
an attribute table through the DBMI driver on native Win32 are prone
to random deadlocks. In effect this means GRASS is useless for vector
data processing on Win32.

I have filed a bug report to the QGIS team and there was some discussion
of this on this list recently.

So far, the bug could not be identified or removed. That's why I wanted
to give Cygwin a try.

Benjamin

Gerald Nelson wrote:
> Have you tried the new wingrass? It's still experimental but some (most?) things work great. It looks and feels like grass. The last time I tried it (on a Vista) machine, I ran into a problem with one of the commands giving me a tcl error.
> 
> Jerry
> 
> ---- Original message ----
>> Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:00:20 +0200
>> From: Benjamin Ducke <benjamin.ducke at ufg.uni-kiel.de>  
>> Subject: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3 on Cygwin  
>> To: GRASS devel <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>
>>
>> Did anyone here try to get a recent version of GRASS CVS running under
>> Cygwin?
>>
>> I got GDAL and GRASS to compile just fine, but when I want to start ANY
>> GRASS module that uses the GDAL libs directly or get linked to Vlib
>> which in turn is linked to GDAL.
>> I get nothing at all. Really: nothing at all, no error message, nothing.
>> Just get kicked to the prompt again. --help does not provoke a reaction,
>> neither does any other option. It seems that the modules just die
>> silently. Great.
>>
>> GDAL itself seems to work fine. I can e.g. use ogr2ogr w/o problems.
>>
>> I tried all GDAL versions from 1.3.1 to 1.4.2 with GRASS support built
>> in and using the gdal-grass plugin. Nothing.
>>
>> I tried down and upgrading the binutils to several different versions.
>> Doesn't help.
>>
>> I tried compiling absolutely minimal versions of both GRASS and GDAL.
>> No luck, either.
>>
>> How hard can it be to get a recent version of GRASS to SOMEHOW run under
>> Windows?
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Benjamin Ducke, M.A.
>> Archäoinformatik
>> (Archaeoinformation Science)
>> Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte
>> (Inst. of Prehistoric and Historic Archaeology)
>> Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
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>> D 24098 Kiel
>> Germany
>>
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-- 
Benjamin Ducke, M.A.
Archäoinformatik
(Archaeoinformation Science)
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte
(Inst. of Prehistoric and Historic Archaeology)
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6
D 24098 Kiel
Germany

Tel.: ++49 (0)431 880-3378 / -3379
Fax : ++49 (0)431 880-7300
www.uni-kiel.de/ufg