[GRASS-user] MS-Windows native GRASS & shell scripts

[Roger Bivand]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Luigi Ponti wrote:

> Dear list,
> 
> I have finally found some time to install the new native winGRASS by 
> Huidae Cho and it was OK.
> 
> I was wondering if it is possible to run some scripts I wrote (bash 
> scripts, containing calls to perl scripts that also use gnuplot) under 
> the new winGRASS. Based on my ignorance, this sounded to me like 
> impossible (since it is a Minimalist GNU), then I read in the MinGW 
> FAQ's that you could...

I think you need first to read up on MSYS, which can provide what you need 
in a simpler way than Cygwin. The MS-Windows native binary is actually an 
MSYS build - MSYS provides enough shell-level support to run configure 
scripts. If Windows Perl and gnuplot are available in your path, they 
should also integrate well enough. There are issues with the ordering of 
directories in the path, which is not always simple, but may be less of a 
problem than using Cygwin.

A concern that I have had is that the current installation is rather 
invasive - I already have MinGW and MSYS (and tcltk), and build proj4 and 
GDAL there anyway, but the install procedure seems to assume a "bare" 
platform - is it possible to respect the fact that some software may 
already be present? By the way, I think PostgreSQL is absolute overkill 
for Windows.

Roger

> 
> ..."install Cygwin and the MinGW distribution in seperate directories 
> (i.e. "C:\CYGWIN" and "C:\MINGW"), and make sure that the "/bin" 
> subdirectory beneath your MinGW installation comes before Cygwin's 
> "/bin" subdirectory in your PATH environment variable (i.e. 
> "PATH=%PATH%;C:\MINGW\BIN;C:\CYGWIN\BIN")". 
> http://www.mingw.org/mingwfaq.shtml#faq-usingwithcygwin
> 
> To what extent would it be possible to access the cygwin functionality 
> from the native winGRASS by using this approach?
> 
> Thanks and sorry in advance if my thought makes no sense at all, and 
> even worse is unrelated.
> 
> Luigi
> 
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