[GRASSLIST:1650] Re: GRASS Cygwin Binary Installation problems.

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:52:52AM -0800, Howard Tan wrote:
> 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
Mhhh, this is bad. 
g.gisenv is an essential module which *should* be included in winGRASS
binaries. I am quite sure that GRASS binaries (20010312) contain this
module, so above message must be coming from an older package.


> /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
> enter '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?

We need some volunteers who really try this, probably build a new
binary package (as John is quite overloaded with other projects) and
improve the READMEs...

Volunteers may contact us!

Regards
 Markus Neteler