[GRASS-user] Cygwin Grass 6.2 compiling?

[Glynn Clements]

paallen at attglobal.net wrote:

> After some years of using grass and noticing that
> the cygwin grass version has not been updated
> since April 17th, I have decided that I will sit
> down and try and compile grass for cygwin myself.
> 
> What suggestion does anyone have?  Searching the
> grass web & wiki I have notice that no where is
> there detailed instructions on compiling grass for
> cygwin.  Is this correct?
> 
> I have downloaded 
> grass-6.2.cvs_src_snapshot_2006_08_22.tar.gz
> 
> And off of the http://geni.ath.cx/grass.html page
> I have installed :
> gdal-grass6.1.cvs-1.2.3-2.tar.bz2.tar
> mesa-grass-6.2-1.tar.bz2.tar
> tcltk-grass-8.4.7-1.tar.bz2.tar
> tiff-grass-3.7.1-1.tar.bz2
> 
> Is it worth getting more recient libraries?

I think you might need a more recent version of GDAL; I've run into
trouble with out-of-date GDAL versions on Cygwin. I'm currently using
GDAL 1.3.1, built from source.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>