[GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3 on Cygwin

[Glynn Clements]

Benjamin Ducke wrote:

> 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.

This usually indicates that a DLL wasn't found. Run cygcheck on the
program in question to identify the DLLs which it uses. Any DLLs need
to be in the path (or in the same directory as the executable, which
is probably why GDAL's own utilities work).

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>