[GRASS-dev] wingrass640

[Paul Kelly]

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Martin Landa wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am currently trying to compile GRASS (releasebranch_6_4) under MS
> Windows [1].
>
> TODO:
>
> * compile with regex

I can report it works fine with the Gnuwin32 regex packages. Another issue 
is that Cairo support in the 6.4 configure script requires the pkg-config 
command which isn't generally available on Windows. But the 7.0 configure 
script doesn't require pkg-config and in any case Cairo support isn't 
particularly important for 6.4 so I don't think this needs to be 
addressed.

> It would be also good to modify Windows installer: add to the menu
> (and desktop) two items
>
> * TCLTK GRASS
> * WX GRASS

Something else that might be worth investigating would be to implement an 
option to select the language. I've found that it can easily be done by 
setting the environment variable LC_ALL to the country code (if compiled 
with NLS support - Gnuwin32 intl packages work fine here) but the average 
Windows user may not know how to set an environment variable and I wonder 
is there some standard way applications using NLS support on Windows set 
the language.

Paul