[GRASS-user] how to install a workable GRASS in window platform?

[Eduardo Patto Kanegae]

Raymond,

In my own opinion, I prefer to run GRASS on a Linux box because you
can play with scripting and installing other free GIS tools under
linux is more flexible than Windows - under Win you normally download
and run the pre-build binaries you find and that's all.
On Linux you can build your applications as you need.

But, if you need an easy GRASS installer for Windows, try QGIS -
http://qgis.org .

The latest 0.8 version of QGIS contains a GRASS interface. And despite
QGIS does not have all GRASS commands as buttons, it also contains a
shell that let you play with commands available - se
%QGIS_folder%\grass\bin\ for a complete list of available commands.

best regards,

Eduardo Patto Kanegae
http://www.webmapit.com.br


On 1/26/07, Raymond Fu <raymond_fu at yahoo.com> wrote:
> hi
>
> I have installed GRASS version from
> http://geni.ath.cx/grass.html#toc5, but found many
> problems.  The author of the package tells existing GRASS is compability
> problem with new cwygin for this package (from: second last message
> http://geni.ath.cx/wiki_cygwin_grass.html)  It seems that
> there are great many difficulties in the compilation.
>
> How can I install a workable GRASS in window platform?   Do you have any
> workable package unloaded in the web site?  Should I run GRASS in linux
> platform?  Should it be the most stable one?  What is the common platform
> for most of the user run GRASS run on?   It is very urgent to install a
> workable GRASS.  Would anyone tell me?
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> Raymond
>
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