[GRASS-dev] making GEOS as manatory dependency for grass7 ?

[Martin Landa]

Hi,

2012/11/4 Benjamin Ducke <benducke at fastmail.fm>:
> GEOS is a beast to compile on MinGW though, so creating
> Windows binaries using open source tools might get
> considerably harder with this added dependency.
>
> This issue might resolve itself in the future, provided
> that MinGW support improves.

note that GEOS is provided through OSGeo4W framework [1] and winGRASS
is compiled against GEOS [2].

Martin

[1] http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/pkg-geos
[2] http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/branches/releasebranch_6_4/mswindows/osgeo4w/package.sh#L131

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