[GRASS-user] compiling GRASS with Cygwin and Windows 10

[Massi Alvioli]

dear GRASS users,

just want to let you know that the problem was finally solved with the
latest Cygwin update.
Now GRASS GIS can be compiled and used in Cygwin, again.

Massi
Il giorno gio 15 mar 2018 alle ore 10:52 Massi Alvioli
<nocharge at gmail.com> ha scritto:
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> Hi Markus,
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> thanks for your answer. That was also one of my concerns, but I have no handle on that other than
> using the 64bit installation utility for cygwin. The package containing cygSDL (which seems to be
> the problem, here) does not bear any reference to 32/64 bit .. and google does not help on that
> "Win32 error 1114" alone or in conjunction with cygwin, cygSDL or python. I guess I'll have to
> wait for the next major cygwin upgrade, if nobody else comes up with some idea.
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> Massi
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> 2018-03-14 20:05 GMT+01:00 Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org>:
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>> Hi,
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>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 11:21 PM, Massi Alvioli <nocharge at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
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>> > I need a bit of help with this Cygwin problem. Since the last Cygwin update
>> > my GRASS 7.2 gui stopped working with a cryptical Cygwin-related error message:
>> > ----- --- -- -
>> > GRASS 7.2.0 (italia):~ > g.gui
>> > Launching <wxpython> GUI in the background, please wait...
>> > 0 [main] python2.7 13544 child_info_fork::abort: unable to map
>> > C:\cygwin64\bin\cygSDL2-2-0-0.dll, Win32 error 1114
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>> --> confusingly it shows a Win32 error while being in cygwin64\ ?
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>> Your configuration is also
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>> ./configure \
>>         --prefix=/home/alvioli/macs/local/grass74_inst \
>>         --host='x86_64-pc-cygwin' \
>> ...
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>> Was the cygwin update mixing up 32bit and 64bit (just guessing)?
>>
>> Markus
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