[GRASSLIST:7527] Re: First reactions

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 02:30:21PM +0200, Martin Wegmann wrote:
> On Friday 08 July 2005 10:09, Hamish wrote:
...
> > But GRASS does require a UNIX environment to run in, so it has to use
> > something like Cygwin to provide that, along with all the complexity
> > that entails.
> 
> I did not know that. GRASS requires a UNIX environment and hence will never be 
> available as "*.exe"? Well, then does the Windows user world have to deal 
> with Cygwin. 

Work is ongoing at University of Trento to port GRASS to MS-Windows
as generic EXE/DLLs using MingW compiler. Most of the libraries are
done, module testing is ongoing. Once working, Cygwin will be no longer
needed (although maybe helpful for scripting etc).

Markus