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

[Benjamin Ducke]

Thanks Martin, I shall take a look and see
if I can learn anything from their Makefiles.

However, I fear that they used VC:

http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/pkg-geos

so there might be some problems replicating this
with MinGW.

This might be a but "puritanical" of me, but
I really think that all of GRASS' mandatory
dependencies on Windows should compile easily
using MinGW, and not require proprietary
tools.

Cheers,

Ben

On 11/04/2012 10:52 PM, Martin Landa wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Martin Landa <landa.martin gmail.com> * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa
>



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