[GRASS-dev] WinGRASS Wiki Hacking

[Frank Warmerdam]

Glynn Clements wrote:
> Sooner or later, someone will need to bite the bullet and produce a
> dependency-based installer, probably based upon Cygwin's.
> 
> The only question is how much time gets wasted on half-baked solutions
> between now and then.

Glynn,

I think that's what I'm doing already with OSGeo4W!  It includes
a dependency based installer derived from the Cygwin one (but with
no dependency on cygwin runtime dlls).  It is intended to provide
an integrated "production ready" windows FOSS4G solution for all
OSGeo projects, and other projects of interest.

There is already a working version available, though it is rough
around the edges, and the set of packages is still incomplete.

It includes a somewhat half-baked WinGRASS build I prepared myself
several months ago, based on the wingrass build notes at the time.
Amoung other things, it proves that a MingW built GRASS can use
a VC7.1 built GDAL.

I've been mildly disappointed in the past that Marco wasn't
interested in preparing a WinGRASS package for OSGeo4W, but
he explained that it seemed like more than he wanted to take
responsibility for at the time.  I'm hopeful that someone else
from the GRASS community will take on this responsibility.

More info available at:

  http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w

I hope to see some grass folks participate.

I'd add that I would love to see even independent WinGRASS
installers using as many packages as possible for dependent libraries
from OSGeo4W.   I believe the OSSIM folks are already moving in this
direction.

Best regards,
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