R: R: [GRASS-dev] GRASS-6.3.0RC4 Windows Native Binary (MSYS) Build Errors

[Hamish]

marco.pasetti wrote:
> I'm an engineering student and I'm making an experimental thesis on
> solar radiation and mathematic models simulating transitory
> functioning of solar cells (photovoltaic); I approached GIS few weeks
> ago only to know how to determinate horizon lines starting from
> elevation data and a given GPS point (I need that to carefully
> compare my model results with real measured data); so, I discovered a
> big and deep world (have you ever heard to pandora's box myth?)... I
> also discovered that JRC developed a GRASS module called r.horizon
> that it's perfect for my purpose... even if it's not included in
> current grass distribution. I looked for sources and informations on
> how to build executables for windows; I even installed linux (ubuntu
> 7.10, dual boot with xp pro) on my machine, to let it work easily....
> but, for many reasons, I need it on windows... so.. here I am! at
> this stage I already built r.horizon (and r.sun2 module, also from
> JRC) without errors... but I want to continue because I think that,
> if you (developer community) have been so kind in writing wikies and
> replay to mails, I must replay with tryng to do my job too... ;-)

Note Cygwin+GRASS works well if you need to run on Windows in a stable
way. Of course helping to test the experimental native build is most
welcome too.


Hamish



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