[GRASS-dev] Re: WinGrass testing results 6.3.0rc2

[Benjamin Ducke]

Moritz Lennert wrote:
> On 27/11/07 11:07, Paul Kelly wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Benjamin Ducke wrote:
>>
>>>>> NVIZ won?t launch (but did in a recent binary)
>>> This can be somewhat tricky. For me, it fails to launch from within
>>>  the MSYS shell
> 
> I cannot confirm this: If I launch grass using /c/grass/bin/grass63
> (i.e. the shell launch script, not the .bat), nviz works perfectly for
> me, both from the gui and from the comand line.
> 
> (You have to change the definition of GISBASE from c:/ syntax to /c/
> syntax for it to work...I've corrected this in the wingrass6.3RC2
> package now)

Cool. I'll try that as soon as I can.

> 
>>> as well as a sh.exe started via Window's cmd.exe.
> 
> Could you be more precise as to what exactly you are doing ? Do you
> launch grass via grass63.bat and then launch sh.exe within a running
> grass session ?

Yes, exactly. I have sh.exe and friends in my system PATH.

> 
>>
>> That might be because the Msys shell doesn't recognise a .bat file
>> (in this case nviz.bat) as an executable and/or can't run it. What
>> happens if you add the GRASS scripts directory ($GISBASE/scripts
>> IIRC) to your path? Then it should pick up the nviz shell script that
>> will (should be???) installed in there.

OK, I'll try that, too.

> 
> If you run grass in msys you have to run the grass63 file which then
> calls Init.sh which sets the path to the scripts directory.

Good point.

Cheers,

Benjamin

> 
> Moritz
> 
> 

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