R: [GRASS-dev] Build winGRASS with Python and wxPython

Michael Barton michael.barton at asu.edu
Wed Feb 27 11:09:38 EST 2008



On Feb 27, 2008, at 8:28 AM, <marco.pasetti at alice.it> wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> >There is a separate dev Windows package that you need to instal for  
> wx-config
>
> oh... I thought it must exist! ;-) but I still didn't find it...  
> I'll look better...

It's a little link at the bottom of the paragraph on installing the  
Windows binary.

>
> >That said, you don't need to install this unless you want to try to
> >compile the new in-development digitizer. Most people are still
> >having difficulty compiling this and I know that Martin is actively
> >working on it. It would certainly be helpful to him if you wanted to
> >try compiling the digitizer in Windows--but this isn't necessary to
> >run the rest of the wxPython GUI.
>
> mhhh... confused! if I don't have wx-config I cannot enable the new  
> wxPython GUI! (configure fails)

Leave out the --with-wxwigets. This is only used for compiling vdigit.  
Or maybe put in --without-wxwidgets.

Or you can leave it in and just ignore the error compiling vdigit I  
think.

Martin??

>
> >You don't need to enable Python in GDAL to use the wxPython GUI. But
> >perhaps you are trying to enable Python in GDAL for other reasons?
>
> Yes, you're right. I'm working on a new MSYS environment for GRASS,  
> and I'm trying to build the most options as possible to let user  
> work on and test them in WinGrass (even if I'm not personally able  
> to use those options).
>
> If you tell me what data GRASS Makefile needs from wx-config file, I  
> could modify configure and Makefile in order to work without wx-config
>

I don't think this is necessary.

Michael


>
> Regards,
>
> Marco
>
>
>
>
> Da: Michael Barton per conto di Michael Barton
> Inviato: mer 27/02/2008 16.10
> A: marco.pasetti at alice.it; GRASS developers list
> Oggetto: Re: [GRASS-dev] Build winGRASS with Python and wxPython
>
>
> On Feb 27, 2008, at 5:30 AM, grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:58:58 +0100
> > From: <marco.pasetti at alice.it>
> > Subject: [GRASS-dev] Build winGRASS with Python and wxPython
> > To: <grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
> > Message-ID: <FBCMMO02t4SPh1qHxpE0002f966 at FBCMMO02.fbc.local>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I installed prebuilt binaries of Python 2.5.2 and wxPython2.8
> > (unicode-2.8.7.1-py25); GRASS configure help tells to specify
> > python and wxpython config files... but I don't have those files!
> > any suggestions?
>
> There is a separate dev Windows package that you need to instal for
> wx-config. This has been a confusing issue for many of us. There is a
> dev package for Linux that is part of the normal group of
> installations that you can install or not. The same files are
> installed automatically in the Mac binary, but put in a different
> place than Linux puts them. I saw a link for a Windows dev package on
> the binary downloads page for wxPython and suppose that this where
> you get these files for Windows--though I don't know where Windows
> will put them.
>
> That said, you don't need to install this unless you want to try to
> compile the new in-development digitizer. Most people are still
> having difficulty compiling this and I know that Martin is actively
> working on it. It would certainly be helpful to him if you wanted to
> try compiling the digitizer in Windows--but this isn't necessary to
> run the rest of the wxPython GUI.
>
> >
> > I also had a problem trying to enable python in GDAL, because the
> > distributed Windows installer of Python is built using Visual
> > Studio, while GDAL (if built with MinGW) requires a MinGW built
> > version of Python; this means that, if you want to enable Python
> > bindings in GDAL, you'll need to build Python from source using  
> MinGW.
>
> You don't need to enable Python in GDAL to use the wxPython GUI. But
> perhaps you are trying to enable Python in GDAL for other reasons?
>
> Michael
>
> > I hope that it will be not the same even in GRASS! ;-)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Marco
>
>

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