[GRASS-dev] Fwd: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo4W maintenance activities

[Rashad Kanavath]

Hello Radim,

Thanks for information.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Radim Blazek <radim.blazek at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Rashad Kanavath
> <mohammedrashadkm at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Markus,
> >
> > As this part related to GRASS, I am writing it here.
> >
> > Moving to cmake is one thing. But I don't know if that is blocking msvc
> > build. Did anybody tried to build grass with msvc?
>
> Yes I did, the libs only.
>
> I started with https://github.com/swig/cccl but that was failing
> because cl.exe was givin deprecation warning.....
> In the end, I managed to compile libs with command (manually changed
> Makefile):
>
> cl "-nologo" "-LDd" -Zi "-Fe$@" $(C_SOURCES) $(ALL_CFLAGS) $(ALL_LIBS)
> "-link" -DEBUG -OPT:NOREF -DEF:$(LIB_DEF)
> "-LIBPATH:c:/users/radim/devel/grass-7.0.0-msvc/dist.i686-pc-mingw32/lib"
> "-LIBPATH:c:/users/radim/devel/grass-7.0.0-msvc/dist.i686-pc-mingw32/lib"
> "-LIBPATH:/c/OSGeo4W/lib" "-LIBPATH:/c/OSGeo4W/apps/msys/lib"
> "-LIBPATH:/c/users/radim/devel/grass-7.0.0-msvc/mswindows/osgeo4w/lib/"
> "-LIBPATH:C:/lib/" "-LIBPATH:C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual
> Studio 10.0/VC/lib/" "-LIBPATH:C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft
> SDKs/Windows/v7.0A/lib/"
>
> + some manual hacks like copy proj_i.lib c to proj.lib, comment
> lgamma(), get dirent.h, replace .o by .obj in Grass.make and so on.
>
> I think that adding support for MSVC to current GRASS build system is
> possible, cl.exe is C compiler.
>

Some of these seems easy to fix when moving to cmake. While there might be
trenches..

Anwyay I will give a stab on cmake with grass.


>
> Radim
>
>
> > BTW, What  will be your opinion on adding an cmake build system?. It can
> > ofcourse co-exists with current auto-tools one.
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 8:49 PM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> FYI
> >> (ongoing discussion in the other list)
> >>
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> From: "Jürgen E." <jef at norbit.de>
> >> Date: Feb 21, 2016 4:14 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo4W maintenance activities
> >> To: <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
> >> Cc:
> >>
> >> Hi Markus,
> >>
> >> On Sun, 21. Feb 2016 at 15:47:00 +0100, Markus Neteler wrote:
> >> > since I'm not familiar with compilation on Windows, could you briefly
> >> > indicate what's needed / which efforts to compile GRASS GIS with MSVC
> >> > rather
> >> > than mingw given the recent efforts on the 64bit packaging?  Just to
> >> > better
> >> > understand...
> >>
> >> Not sure.  I'd probably start with moving the build system to CMake.
> Like
> >> I
> >> already did for just the GRASS libraries at some point in the past (some
> >> code
> >> changes I submitted to make the libraries build with MSVC were also
> >> accepted
> >> back then).
> >>
> >> But moving all the modules there is probably a much bigger task and I'm
> >> also
> >> not sure about the acceptance of this. ;)
> >>
> >> It might also be possible to integrate msvc into configure/make (at
> least
> >> I
> >> think I've seen configures with MSVC stuff in them).  Although you'd
> still
> >> need
> >> a unix like shell, make and other tools from mingw/cygwin.  But I never
> >> explored that option (mainly just because the CMake approach went much
> >> better
> >> with what I needed for QGIS).
> >>
> >> But again GRASS works fine in OSGeo4W AFAICT (and as you know and that's
> >> still
> >> not much ;)) and hence I don't see the big problem of mixing MinGW and
> >> MSVC
> >> DLLs.  It doesn't add much to the mess of having different MSVC
> compilers
> >> and
> >> runtimes around.   IMHO that part of Rashad's issue is just a CMake bug
> >> and not
> >> a fundamental flaw in OSGeo4W.
> >>
> >>
> >> Jürgen
> >>
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> >    Rashad
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Regards,
   Rashad
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