[GRASSLIST:1632] Re: GRASS Cygwin Binary Installation problems.

[Lars Bromley]

No luck on it ever, it crashed mightily on install. My advice still stands to anyone trying this: learn to install and use some flavor of linux (slackware rules: www.slackware.com, mandrake is dumb and easy, especially for running graphics: www.mandrake.com), and then install GRASS there. You will be very happy with the results, and since the cygwin install is seemingly  difficult and apparently unstable, the linux install seems to actually be the quickest route.

That is, of course, IMHO....

Lars

>>> Howard Tan <Howard.L.Tan at jpl.nasa.gov> 03/18/01 01:28 AM >>>
So has anybody gotten GRASS to work with Cygwin?

I'm willing to write a better readme file, if someone helps me over this
hump.

Howard


----- Original Message -----
From: Howard Tan <Howard.L.Tan at jpl.nasa.gov>
To: <grasslist at baylor.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 9:52 AM
Subject: [GRASSLIST:1617] GRASS Cygwin Binary Installation problems.


> Hello,
>
> I've been trying to get GRASS to work on my NT boxes (NT4.0-sp6 and
2k-sp1).
> I can start GRASS, but it keeps dropping out with the following error:
>
> ERROR:
>        ERROR: program 'g.gisenv' cannot be executed because:
>
>        Neither a command line (cmd) or interactive (inter) version was
found
> /usr/local/grass5/etc/Init.sh: GISDBASE: parameter not set
>
>
> I've downloaded all the neccassary files from Cygwin including the XFree86
> drivers (current as of 3/15), and I'm using ReflectionX (similar to
XWin32)
> for my X Server. I've downloaded and installed the IPC binary
> files(v1.09-2). Then I've installed the GRASS binaries (20010312). I can
run
> 'StartGrass' successfully, it's starts up another window and then I can
> ente 'grass5' into the new window. Grass starts up, and I enter the
> LOCATION, MAPSET, and DATABASE. I've downloaded the Seeds Tutorial Set
from
> the grass website, and follow the tutorial. Then when I hit [ESC][ENTER],
> GRASS coughs out with the error above.
>
> I get the same error on both win nt 4.0 and win 2000.
>
> Anybody have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Howard Tan
>