[GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3 on Cygwin

[Benjamin Ducke]

Yes, that was it! Thanks a lot for the hint.
Now I have a beautifully complete version of GRASS 6.3 on Cygwin
running. It's a little slower than native Win, but it has complete
features (except SQLite, I am still having trouble getting that
to work on Cygwin).

Benjamin

Glynn Clements wrote:
> 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).
> 

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Benjamin Ducke, M.A.
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