[GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3 on Cygwin

[Hamish]

> 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.

Glynn:
> 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).

more on cygcheck and failing cygwin executables here:
 http://grass.ibiblio.org/grass62/binary/mswindows/#trouble


Hamish